Macaron
Open in tool →Rose, sky and pistachio at patisserie strength — the pastel trio, with a plum-grey text colour so it never washes out.
Color
#c9ecbb
#c9ecbb
hex
#c9ecbbrgb
rgb(201, 236, 187)hsl
hsl(103, 56%, 83%)oklch
oklch(0.905 0.075 136.8)Closest name: Frozen Forest (#cfe8b6)Relative luminance 0.76
Colors that go with #c9ecbb
Charcoal, Lilac and Amber 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 body-text near-black for #c9ecbb: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #c9ecbb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #c9ecbb, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped6 real palettes, including Nursery and Estate put Blush Pink beside #c9ecbb, as the lead colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #c9ecbb, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #c9ecbb in 6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #c9ecbb: 7 real palettes, including Estate and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #c9ecbb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c9ecbb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.3:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.2:1 | 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 #c9ecbb 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
#c9ecbb reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9ecbb
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 #c9ecbb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c9ecbb-a6bea2-704edf-1f2d21-eff1e9?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