Color
#2a565a
#2a565argb(42, 86, 90)hsl(185, 36%, 26%)oklch(0.424 0.049 203.2)Colors that go with #2a565a
Rust, Blue 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.
Rust #b7410e
complementaryshippedRust sits directly opposite #2a565a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Alaska Airlines's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #2a565a, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #2a565a: 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #2a565a: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #2a565a in 6 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #2a565a: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #2a565a in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Chime's brand system, as the lead colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #2a565a: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #2a565a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #2a565a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.15:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.58:1 | 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 #2a565a 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
#2a565a reads as cool, dark, luxury. 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 #2a565a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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