Color
#296b65
#296b65rgb(41, 107, 101)hsl(175, 45%, 29%)oklch(0.484 0.067 187)Colors that go with #296b65
Charcoal, Crimson and Cadet 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 for #296b65: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
complementaryshippedCrimson sits directly opposite #296b65 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #296b65: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #296b65: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #296b65: 10 real palettes, including The New York Times's brand system and HP's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #296b65 in 4 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Fireside, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #296b65 in 5 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Console Light, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Lufthansa's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #296b65, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #296b65
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #296b65 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.2:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.39:1 | 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 #296b65 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#296b65 reads as dark, luxury, bold. 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 #296b65 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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