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Color
#a9dbb8
#a9dbb8
hex
#a9dbb8rgb
rgb(169, 219, 184)hsl
hsl(138, 41%, 76%)oklch
oklch(0.847 0.071 154.1)Closest name: Big Spender (#acddaf)Relative luminance 0.6256
Colors that go with #a9dbb8
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 #a9dbb8: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryshippedPlum sits directly opposite #a9dbb8 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 #a9dbb8 in 5 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 #a9dbb8 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #a9dbb8: 8 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a9dbb8 in 5 real palettes, including Canopy and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including First Snow and Allbirds's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #a9dbb8, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #a9dbb8, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a9dbb8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a9dbb8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.55:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.51:1 | 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 #a9dbb8 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
#a9dbb8 reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9dbb8
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 #a9dbb8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a9dbb8-a2beae-be59d4-1f2d29-ebf1e9?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