Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Color
#35595argb(53, 89, 90)hsl(182, 26%, 28%)oklch(0.437 0.041 198)Sienna, Blue and Cadet 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.
Sienna sits directly opposite #35595a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Jeep's brand system put Blue beside #35595a, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #35595a: 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #35595a: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #35595a: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod shows up next to #35595a in 5 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green is paired with #35595a in 4 real palettes, including Console Light and Mint Modern, as the accent.
White Smoke is the surface for #35595a: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
| #35595a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.7:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.73:1 | 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 #35595a as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#35595a 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 #35595a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/35595a-a2babe-d45990-1f272d-e9f1ee?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