Harbour
Open in tool →Steel blue and haze with a buoy orange on a pale grey — the maritime palette every port town uses for a reason.
Color
#9dbbcd
#9dbbcd
hex
#9dbbcdrgb
rgb(157, 187, 205)hsl
hsl(203, 32%, 71%)oklch
oklch(0.776 0.042 234.4)Closest name: Aquatic (#99c1cc)Relative luminance 0.4712
Colors that go with #9dbbcd
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Copper 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 #9dbbcd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #9dbbcd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #9dbbcd in 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #9dbbcd in 6 real palettes, including First Snow and Lavender Milk, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #9dbbcd in 10 real palettes, including Still Water and Midnight Luxe, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9dbbcd in 25 real palettes, including Still Water and Graphite Mono, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #9dbbcd in 5 real palettes, including Still Water and Mint Chip, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sand #c2b280
split-complementshippedSand is a split-complement of #9dbbcd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #9dbbcd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9dbbcd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.01:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.42:1 | 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 #9dbbcd 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
#9dbbcd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9dbbcd
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 #9dbbcd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9dbbcd-9cb0c4-df4e5d-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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