Retro Pop
Open in tool →Fifties-diner red and steel blue with a peach — nostalgic pop that still passes contrast.
Color
#3380a3rgb(51, 128, 163)hsl(199, 52%, 42%)oklch(0.568 0.092 231.3)Charcoal, Crimson and Royal 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 is the text near-black for #3380a3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson is a split-complement of #3380a3: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Royal Blue is #3380a3's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sienna sits directly opposite #3380a3 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 #3380a3 in 8 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Wired's brand system, as the supporting colour.
4 real palettes, including Activision's brand system and Pixar's brand system put Blue beside #3380a3, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #3380a3: 7 real palettes, including Glacier and Hershey's's brand system, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Copper with #3380a3: 5 real palettes, including Riverbed and Notion's brand system, as the accent.
| #3380a3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.41:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.76:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #3380a3 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fifties-diner red and steel blue with a peach — nostalgic pop that still passes contrast.
Sea blue with sun-bleached yellow and a coral — striped-canvas summer, softened so it works on a screen.
#3380a3 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 #3380a3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/3380a3-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-e9f1f0?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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