Retro Pop
Open in tool →Fifties-diner red and steel blue with a peach — nostalgic pop that still passes contrast.
Color
#397da2rgb(57, 125, 162)hsl(201, 48%, 43%)oklch(0.562 0.089 235.3)Charcoal, Royal Blue and Rust 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 #397da2: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Royal Blue is #397da2's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Rust is a split-complement of #397da2: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sienna sits directly opposite #397da2 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 #397da2 in 8 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the supporting colour.
4 real palettes, including Activision's brand system and Pixar's brand system put Blue beside #397da2, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #397da2: 8 real palettes, including Glacier and Hershey's's brand system, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Copper with #397da2: 5 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent.
| #397da2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.54:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.63:1 | 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 #397da2 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#397da2 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 #397da2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/397da2-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-e9f1f0?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