Color
#a9bbc6
#a9bbc6rgb(169, 187, 198)hsl(203, 20%, 72%)oklch(0.782 0.025 234.5)Colors that go with #a9bbc6
Charcoal, Blue and Champagne 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 that reads cleanly against #a9bbc6 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #a9bbc6, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #a9bbc6, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a9bbc6: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a9bbc6 in 6 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #a9bbc6: 6 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a9bbc6: 6 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a9bbc6 in 4 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a9bbc6
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a9bbc6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.98:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.61:1 | 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 #a9bbc6 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
#a9bbc6 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 #a9bbc6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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