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
#9ec4dc
#9ec4dc
hex
#9ec4dcrgb
rgb(158, 196, 220)hsl
hsl(203, 47%, 74%)oklch
oklch(0.801 0.053 236)Closest name: Airborne (#a2c2d0)Relative luminance 0.5192
Colors that go with #9ec4dc
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Deep Sky Blue 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 #9ec4dc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #9ec4dc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #9ec4dc: 7 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9ec4dc: 6 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Telehealth and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #9ec4dc, as the text colour against it.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #9ec4dc: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped9 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #9ec4dc, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9ec4dc in 28 real palettes, including Raycast's brand system and Still Water, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #9ec4dc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9ec4dc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.84:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.38:1 | 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 #9ec4dc as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#9ec4dc reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ec4dc
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 #9ec4dc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9ec4dc-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.
Machine-readable: color.md