Color

#9ea0cc

#9ea0cc
hex#9ea0cc
rgbrgb(158, 160, 204)
hslhsl(237, 31%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.72 0.064 282.6)
Closest name: Imperial Lilac (#a99fcf)Relative luminance 0.3677

Colors that go with #9ea0cc

Charcoal, Sand and Burlywood 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.

Real palettes that use #9ea0cc

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ccca9e

#9eb7cc · #b39ecc

#cc9ea0 · #a0cc9e

Split-complementary

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#ccb39e · #b7cc9e

#cc9eb7 · #ccca9e · #9eccb3

Contrast

#9ea0cc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6c6fb2 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5193 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
8.35:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ea0cc 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

#9ea0cc reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ea0cc
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #9ea0cc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ea0cc-9f9cc4-df924e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md