Mint Chip
Open in tool →Mint and celadon with a peach accent — fresh without being clinical; the deep green text keeps it grounded.
Color
#9cddcc
#9cddcc
hex
#9cddccrgb
rgb(156, 221, 204)hsl
hsl(164, 49%, 74%)oklch
oklch(0.849 0.07 176.5)Closest name: Beach Glass (#96dfce)Relative luminance 0.6314
Colors that go with #9cddcc
Charcoal, Lilac and Dark Olive Green 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 #9cddcc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #9cddcc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #9cddcc in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #9cddcc: 8 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Astro's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #9cddcc in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including First Snow and Allbirds's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #9cddcc, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #9cddcc, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #9cddcc: 6 real palettes, including Stone and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #9cddcc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9cddcc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.54:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.63:1 | 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 #9cddcc 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
#9cddcc reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9cddcc
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 #9cddcc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9cddcc-a2beba-d459b5-1f2b2d-e9f1eb?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