Color

#9da5cd

#9da5cd
hex#9da5cd
rgbrgb(157, 165, 205)
hslhsl(230, 32%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.729 0.059 276)
Closest name: Imperial Lilac (#a99fcf)Relative luminance 0.3849

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cdc59d

#9dbdcd · #ad9dcd

#cd9da5 · #a5cd9d

Split-complementary

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#cdad9d · #bdcd9d

#cd9dbd · #cdc59d · #9dcdad

Contrast

#9da5cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.41:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6471af as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #49548d as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.7:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9da5cd 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

#9da5cd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9da5cd
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #9da5cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9da5cd-9c9ec4-df814e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md