Desert Road
Open in tool →Sandstone and sand with a deep teal — the one cool note makes the warm colours look intentional rather than beige.
Color
#3e655ergb(62, 101, 94)hsl(169, 24%, 32%)oklch(0.475 0.046 181.7)Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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 #3e655e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #3e655e: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #3e655e, as the surface under it.
Designers have shipped Copper with #3e655e: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with #3e655e in 8 real palettes, including Gemstone and Codecademy's brand system, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Cider and Rolex's brand system put Dark Goldenrod beside #3e655e, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #3e655e: 11 real palettes, including HP's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the accent.
Sienna is a split-complement of #3e655e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
| #3e655e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.51:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.23:1 | 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 #3e655e 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 #3e655e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/3e655e-a2bebc-d459ab-1f2a2d-e9f1ec?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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