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
#2f7374rgb(47, 115, 116)hsl(181, 42%, 32%)oklch(0.513 0.068 196.6)Charcoal, Crimson and Champagne 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 #2f7374: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson sits directly opposite #2f7374 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #2f7374, as the surface under it.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #2f7374: 5 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Copper with #2f7374: 5 real palettes, including Riverbed and Desert Road, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Denim with #2f7374: 11 real palettes, including The New York Times's brand system and Campus, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Firebrick with #2f7374: 4 real palettes, including Wendy's's brand system and Fireside, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod shows up next to #2f7374 in 4 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Sapphire & Gold, as the accent.
| #2f7374 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.49:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.83:1 | 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 #2f7374 as the background.
#2f7374 reads as cool, modern. 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 #2f7374 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/2f7374-a2babe-d45992-1f272d-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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