Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#9fdaf4
#9fdaf4
hex
#9fdaf4rgb
rgb(159, 218, 244)hsl
hsl(198, 79%, 79%)oklch
oklch(0.857 0.07 227.1)Closest name: Ariel (#aed7ea)Relative luminance 0.6405
Colors that go with #9fdaf4
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Dark Olive Green 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 #9fdaf4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #9fdaf4's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #9fdaf4 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9fdaf4: 5 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and UEFA's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #9fdaf4 in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Blue Mono and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #9fdaf4, as the text colour against it.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #9fdaf4: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped8 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Still Water put Slate Gray beside #9fdaf4, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #9fdaf4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9fdaf4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.52:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.81:1 | 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 #9fdaf4 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#9fdaf4 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9fdaf4
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 #9fdaf4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9fdaf4-9cb3c4-df4e69-1f232d-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