Tide Pool
Open in tool →Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
Color
#299489rgb(41, 148, 137)hsl(174, 57%, 37%)oklch(0.605 0.095 184.9)Charcoal, Copper and Crimson 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 #299489: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper completes a triad with #299489 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Crimson sits directly opposite #299489 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim is paired with #299489 in 8 real palettes, including Peacock and Intel's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod is paired with #299489 in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue is paired with #299489 in 8 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Ford's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange is paired with #299489 in 5 real palettes, including Campus and Graphite, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue is paired with #299489 in 6 real palettes, including Coinbase's brand system and Slate Workspace, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
| #299489 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.69:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.69:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #299489 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
Teal, cobalt and magenta at full chroma on white — jewel tones in daylight; the trick is a near-black text with a blue cast.
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 #299489 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/299489-a2bebe-d459a1-1f292d-e9f1ed?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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