Blossom
Open in tool →Cherry blossom, new leaf and pale primrose — a soft spring set for florists, weddings and anything that opens in April.
Color
#a9d6bc
#a9d6bc
hex
#a9d6bcrgb
rgb(169, 214, 188)hsl
hsl(145, 35%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.837 0.059 159.5)Closest name: Frosted Fir (#b4d5bd)Relative luminance 0.6016
Colors that go with #a9d6bc
Charcoal, Plum 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 for #a9d6bc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryshippedPlum sits directly opposite #a9d6bc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a9d6bc in 4 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a9d6bc in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #a9d6bc: 7 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a9d6bc: 4 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and Fitbit's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a9d6bc in 5 real palettes, including Canopy and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #a9d6bc: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #a9d6bc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a9d6bc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.61:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.03:1 | 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 #a9d6bc 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
#a9d6bc reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9d6bc
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 #a9d6bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a9d6bc-a2beb1-cc59d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?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