Still Water
Open in tool →Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Color
#a9c0cb
#a9c0cb
hex
#a9c0cbrgb
rgb(169, 192, 203)hsl
hsl(199, 25%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.794 0.03 228.2)Closest name: Airborne (#a2c2d0)Relative luminance 0.5045
Colors that go with #a9c0cb
Charcoal, Copper and Crimson 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 #a9c0cb without the hard edge of pure #000.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a9c0cb: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a9c0cb 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 #a9c0cb: 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a9c0cb: 6 real palettes, including Open House and Nikon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Telehealth put Midnight Blue beside #a9c0cb, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Paper & Pine put Peru beside #a9c0cb, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #a9c0cb in 4 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a9c0cb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a9c0cb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.89:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.09:1 | 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 #a9c0cb 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
#a9c0cb reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9c0cb
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 #a9c0cb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a9c0cb-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-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