Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#211d30rgb(33, 29, 48)hsl(253, 25%, 15%)oklch(0.245 0.036 293.2)Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Sea Green 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 #211d30: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green sits directly opposite #211d30 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sea Green is a split-complement of #211d30: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sienna is a split-complement of #211d30: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue is #211d30's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal completes a triad with #211d30 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber is paired with #211d30 in 15 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
23 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #211d30, as the accent.
| #211d30 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.37:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.28:1 | 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 #211d30 as the background.
Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
#211d30 reads as cool, muted, 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 #211d30 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/211d30-a99cc4-dfb84e-281f2d-e9ebf1?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