Color

#a9b9cb

#a9b9cb
hex#a9b9cb
rgbrgb(169, 185, 203)
hslhsl(212, 25%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.779 0.031 251.3)
Closest name: Ethereal Mist (#b0b8cc)Relative luminance 0.4744

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cbbba9

#a9cacb · #aaa9cb

#cba9b9 · #b9cba9

Split-complementary

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#cbaaa9 · #cacba9

#cba9ca · #cbbba9 · #a9cbaa

Contrast

#a9b9cb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5c7899 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #455a73 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.07:1)
Aaon black
10.49:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a9b9cb 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

#a9b9cb reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9b9cb
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #a9b9cb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9b9cb-9caac4-df564e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md