Color

#a9c8db

#a9c8db
hex#a9c8db
rgbrgb(169, 200, 219)
hslhsl(203, 41%, 76%)
oklchoklch(0.816 0.043 235)
Closest name: Cloudy Valley (#b1c6d6)Relative luminance 0.5486

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#dbbca9

#a9dbd5 · #a9afdb

#dba9c8 · #c8dba9

Split-complementary

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#dba9af · #dbd5a9

#d5a9db · #dbbca9 · #afdba9

Contrast

#a9c8db as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #427b9e as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #325c77 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4f4f4f (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #333333 (7.2:1)
Aaon black
11.97:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a9c8db 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

#a9c8db reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9c8db
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 #a9c8db and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9c8db-9cb0c4-df4e5d-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md