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
#356e6drgb(53, 110, 109)hsl(179, 35%, 32%)oklch(0.5 0.06 193.9)Charcoal, Champagne and Cobalt 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 #356e6d: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #356e6d, as the surface under it.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #356e6d: 4 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Copper with #356e6d: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with #356e6d in 8 real palettes, including Gemstone and Redfin's brand system, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Denim with #356e6d: 10 real palettes, including The New York Times's brand system and Campus, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Firebrick with #356e6d: 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sienna is a split-complement of #356e6d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
| #356e6d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.83:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.6:1 | 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 #356e6d as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #356e6d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/356e6d-a2bbbe-d45996-1f272d-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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