Tide Pool
Open in tool →Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
Color
#322d43rgb(50, 45, 67)hsl(254, 20%, 22%)oklch(0.312 0.039 294.4)Dark Olive Green, Sea Green and Sienna 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.
Dark Olive Green sits directly opposite #322d43 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sea Green is a split-complement of #322d43: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sienna completes a triad with #322d43 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue is #322d43's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal completes a triad with #322d43 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber is paired with #322d43 in 6 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Wikipedia's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue is paired with #322d43 in 12 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Headspace's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
White Smoke is the surface for #322d43: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
| #322d43 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.19:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.59:1 | 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 #322d43 as the background.
#322d43 reads as cool, muted, dark. 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 #322d43 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/322d43-aa9cc4-dfbb4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md