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
#416e71rgb(65, 110, 113)hsl(184, 27%, 35%)oklch(0.507 0.05 201.2)Charcoal, Sienna 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 #416e71: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sienna sits directly opposite #416e71 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne is paired with #416e71 in 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cobalt Blue is paired with #416e71 in 5 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Fintech Trust, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper is paired with #416e71 in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Riverbed, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson is paired with #416e71 in 7 real palettes, including Gemstone and Redfin's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim is paired with #416e71 in 10 real palettes, including Campus and HP's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Firebrick is paired with #416e71 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Newsprint, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
| #416e71 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.69:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.69:1 | 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 #416e71 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 #416e71 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/416e71-a2b9be-df4e8a-1f262d-e9f1ee?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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