Color

#9dc5cd

#9dc5cd
hex#9dc5cd
rgbrgb(157, 197, 205)
hslhsl(190, 32%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.797 0.044 211.2)
Closest name: Continental Waters (#98c6cb)Relative luminance 0.5151

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cda59d

#9dcdbd · #9dadcd

#cd9dc5 · #c5cd9d

Split-complementary

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#cd9dad · #cdbd9d

#bd9dcd · #cda59d · #adcd9d

Contrast

#9dc5cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #457c87 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #345d65 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
11.3:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9dc5cd 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

#9dc5cd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9dc5cd
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 #9dc5cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9dc5cd-a2b6be-df4e7c-1f252d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md