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
#9fc0d0rgb(159, 192, 208)hsl(200, 34%, 72%)oklch(0.789 0.042 228.8)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 is the text near-black for #9fc0d0: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon sits directly opposite #9fc0d0 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Designers have shipped Copper with #9fc0d0: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson is paired with #9fc0d0 in 5 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #9fc0d0: 7 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #9fc0d0: 8 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Dodger Blue with #9fc0d0: 4 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
7 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Telehealth put Midnight Blue beside #9fc0d0, as the text colour against it.
| #9fc0d0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.92:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.92:1 | 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 #9fc0d0 as the background.
Steel blue and haze with a buoy orange on a pale grey — the maritime palette every port town uses for a reason.
Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
#9fc0d0 reads as cool, muted, 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 #9fc0d0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/9fc0d0-9cb2c4-df4e64-1f232d-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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