Coastal
Open in tool →Sea-teal, sky and sand — bright without shouting; works for travel, wellness, and anything near water.
Color
#9dcce7rgb(157, 204, 231)hsl(202, 61%, 76%)oklch(0.821 0.062 233.7)Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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 is the text near-black for #9dcce7: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon sits directly opposite #9dcce7 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson is paired with #9dcce7 in 5 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #9dcce7: 7 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #9dcce7: 7 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and UEFA's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Dodger Blue with #9dcce7: 4 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
7 real palettes, including Telehealth and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #9dcce7, as the text colour against it.
Designers have shipped Sage Green with #9dcce7: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
| #9dcce7 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.72:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.22:1 | 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 #9dcce7 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Sea-teal, sky and sand — bright without shouting; works for travel, wellness, and anything near water.
Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
#9dcce7 reads as cool, vivid, light. 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 #9dcce7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/9dcce7-9cb1c4-df4e5f-1f222d-e9f1f0?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