Color

#9cc4bd

#9cc4bd
hex#9cc4bd
rgbrgb(156, 196, 189)
hslhsl(170, 25%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.789 0.044 183.3)
Closest name: Continental Waters (#98c6cb)Relative luminance 0.5022

Colors that go with #9cc4bd

Charcoal, Blue and Champagne lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #9cc4bd

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#c49ca3

#9cc4a9 · #9cb7c4

#bd9cc4 · #c4bd9c

Split-complementary

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#c49cb7 · #c4a99c

#a99cc4 · #c49ca3 · #b7c49c

Contrast

#9cc4bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.9:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #4b7c74 as the text (4.74:1)
  • AAA: use #396059 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.14:1)
Aaon black
11.04:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9cc4bd as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9cc4bd
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #9cc4bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9cc4bd-a2bebd-d459a9-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md