Color
#2b695e
#2b695ergb(43, 105, 94)hsl(169, 42%, 29%)oklch(0.477 0.066 179.9)Colors that go with #2b695e
Charcoal, Medium Violet Red and 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 #2b695e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
complementaryshippedMedium Violet Red sits directly opposite #2b695e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #2b695e, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #2b695e: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #2b695e: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #2b695e in 8 real palettes, including Gemstone and Redfin's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
shipped4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Cider put Dark Goldenrod beside #2b695e, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #2b695e: 10 real palettes, including HP's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #2b695e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #2b695e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.39:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.28:1 | 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 #2b695e 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
#2b695e 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 #2b695e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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