Frost & Ember
Open in tool →Navy and frost with one ember red — the classic cold-with-a-warm-accent structure, borrowed from a thousand ski posters.
Color
#9cdbde
#9cdbde
hex
#9cdbdergb
rgb(156, 219, 222)hsl
hsl(183, 50%, 74%)oklch
oklch(0.85 0.064 199.8)Closest name: Crystal (#a7d8de)Relative luminance 0.63
Colors that go with #9cdbde
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Burlywood 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #9cdbde: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #9cdbde on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #9cdbde in 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #9cdbde in 5 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #9cdbde in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #9cdbde: 7 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9cdbde: 4 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and UEFA's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #9cdbde: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #9cdbde
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9cdbde as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.54:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.6:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #9cdbde as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#9cdbde reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9cdbde
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #9cdbde and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9cdbde-a2b9be-d4598e-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md