Color
#9cecb3
#9cecb3rgb(156, 236, 179)hsl(137, 68%, 77%)oklch(0.876 0.112 152.7)Colors that go with #9cecb3
Charcoal, Plum and Crimson 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 #9cecb3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryshippedPlum sits directly opposite #9cecb3 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #9cecb3 in 4 real palettes, including Formula 1's brand system and Wise's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #9cecb3: 4 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Prime Video's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #9cecb3: 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Scale AI's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Still Water and Ink Wash put Slate Gray beside #9cecb3, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9cecb3 in 14 real palettes, including Macaron and Astro's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #9cecb3: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #9cecb3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9cecb3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.39:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.06:1 | 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 #9cecb3 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
#9cecb3 reads as vivid, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #9cecb3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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