Lido
Open in tool →Pool blue, watermelon and sun on white — the poolside summer set; the deep teal text keeps it from going juvenile.
Color
#05323drgb(5, 50, 61)hsl(192, 85%, 13%)oklch(0.294 0.05 218.8)Crimson, Rust and Sienna 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.
Crimson is a split-complement of #05323d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Rust sits directly opposite #05323d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sienna is a split-complement of #05323d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue is #05323d's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal is #05323d's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Amber is paired with #05323d in 7 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Wikipedia's brand system, as the supporting colour.
16 real palettes, including Headspace's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #05323d, as the accent.
White Smoke is the surface for #05323d: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
| #05323d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.72:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.53:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #05323d as the background.
#05323d reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #05323d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/05323d-a2b5be-df4e77-1f242d-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