Harbour
Open in tool →Steel blue and haze with a buoy orange on a pale grey — the maritime palette every port town uses for a reason.
Color
#396084rgb(57, 96, 132)hsl(209, 40%, 37%)oklch(0.476 0.074 247.8)Charcoal, Sienna 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 #396084: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sienna sits directly opposite #396084 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 #396084 in 6 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the lead colour.
5 real palettes, including Activision's brand system and Tesco's brand system put Blue beside #396084, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #396084: 6 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Unilever's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #396084: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson is paired with #396084 in 17 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Costco's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #396084: 4 real palettes, including Venmo's brand system and Deep Water, as the supporting colour.
| #396084 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 6.6:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.18:1 | 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 #396084 as the background.
#396084 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 #396084 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/396084-9cacc4-df4e4e-1f212d-e9f1f1?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