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
#afc9cf
#afc9cf
hex
#afc9cfrgb
rgb(175, 201, 207)hsl
hsl(191, 25%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.818 0.029 213.2)Closest name: Cloudy Valley (#b1c6d6)Relative luminance 0.5539
Colors that go with #afc9cf
Charcoal, Crimson and Deep Sky Blue 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 #afc9cf without the hard edge of pure #000.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #afc9cf 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 #afc9cf: 7 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #afc9cf: 5 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and Fitbit's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including First Snow and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #afc9cf, as the text colour against it.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #afc9cf: 5 real palettes, including Stone and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped10 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #afc9cf, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #afc9cf in 28 real palettes, including Still Water and Graphite Mono, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #afc9cf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #afc9cf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.74:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.08:1 | 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 #afc9cf 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
#afc9cf reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #afc9cf
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 #afc9cf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/afc9cf-a2b6be-df4e7a-1f252d-e9f1ef?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