Mid-Century
Open in tool →Tangerine, teal and mustard on cream — the 1960s lounge trio, one of the few retro palettes with real hue contrast.
Color
#167279rgb(22, 114, 121)hsl(184, 69%, 28%)oklch(0.505 0.08 202.9)Charcoal, Crimson 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 is the text near-black for #167279: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson sits directly opposite #167279 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber is paired with #167279 in 4 real palettes, including Lemon Squeezy's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
4 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Activision's brand system put Blue beside #167279, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #167279: 6 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Ink & Paper, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #167279: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #167279: 15 real palettes, including The New York Times's brand system and Discover's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Firebrick with #167279: 5 real palettes, including Wendy's's brand system and Fireside, as the supporting colour.
| #167279 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 5.65:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.72:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #167279 as the background.
#167279 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 #167279 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/167279-a2b9be-df4e8a-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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