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
#387475rgb(56, 116, 117)hsl(181, 35%, 34%)oklch(0.52 0.062 196.9)Charcoal, Rust and Amber 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 #387475: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Rust sits directly opposite #387475 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 #387475 in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the supporting colour.
4 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Kia's brand system put Blue beside #387475, as the supporting colour.
5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom put Champagne beside #387475, as that palette's text colour.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #387475: 5 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Copper with #387475: 5 real palettes, including Riverbed and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson is paired with #387475 in 11 real palettes, including Gemstone and Redfin's brand system, as the accent.
| #387475 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.35:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.92:1 | 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 #387475 as the background.
#387475 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 #387475 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/387475-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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