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
#a9c8cb
#a9c8cb
hex
#a9c8cbrgb
rgb(169, 200, 203)hsl
hsl(185, 25%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.811 0.034 203.7)Closest name: Cloudy Valley (#b1c6d6)Relative luminance 0.5406
Colors that go with #a9c8cb
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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #a9c8cb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #a9c8cb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a9c8cb: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a9c8cb in 4 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #a9c8cb: 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a9c8cb: 5 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and Fitbit's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including First Snow and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #a9c8cb, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #a9c8cb, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a9c8cb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a9c8cb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.78:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.81:1 | 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 #a9c8cb as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#a9c8cb reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9c8cb
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 #a9c8cb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a9c8cb-a2b8be-df4e88-1f262d-e9f1ee?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