Mid-Century
Open in tool →Tangerine, teal and mustard on cream — the 1960s lounge trio, one of the few retro palettes with real hue contrast.
Color
#2e6b68rgb(46, 107, 104)hsl(177, 40%, 30%)oklch(0.487 0.063 190.9)Charcoal, Crimson and Amber 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 #2e6b68: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson sits directly opposite #2e6b68 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber is paired with #2e6b68 in 4 real palettes, including Lemon Squeezy's brand system and McDonald's's brand system, as the lead colour.
4 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #2e6b68, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #2e6b68: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #2e6b68: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #2e6b68: 10 real palettes, including The New York Times's brand system and HP's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Firebrick with #2e6b68: 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
| #2e6b68 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.14:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.42:1 | 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 #2e6b68 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#2e6b68 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 #2e6b68 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/2e6b68-a2bcbe-d4599b-1f282d-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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