Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Color
#405659rgb(64, 86, 89)hsl(187, 16%, 30%)oklch(0.436 0.027 206.6)Blue, Cadet Blue and Copper 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.
5 real palettes, including Jeep's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #405659, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #405659: 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #405659: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with #405659 in 4 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Denim with #405659: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod shows up next to #405659 in 5 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green is paired with #405659 in 5 real palettes, including Console Light and Mint Modern, as the accent.
White Smoke is the near-white surface #405659 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
| #405659 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.8:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.69:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #405659 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#405659 reads as cool, muted, dark. 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 #405659 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/405659-a2b8be-df4e83-1f262d-e9f1ee?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