Color

#9cc9bd

#9cc9bd
hex#9cc9bd
rgbrgb(156, 201, 189)
hslhsl(164, 29%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.8 0.05 176.8)
Closest name: Mint Twist (#98cbba)Relative luminance 0.5252

Colors that go with #9cc9bd

Charcoal, Lilac 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#c99ca8

#9cc9a7 · #9cbec9

#bd9cc9 · #c9bd9c

Split-complementary

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#c99cbe · #c9a79c

#a79cc9 · #c99ca8 · #bec99c

Contrast

#9cc9bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.83:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #478071 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #355f54 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.23:1)
Aaon black
11.5:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9cc9bd as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#9cc9bd reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9cc9bd
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 #9cc9bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9cc9bd-a2beba-d459b5-1f2b2d-e9f1eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md