Retro Pop
Open in tool →Fifties-diner red and steel blue with a peach — nostalgic pop that still passes contrast.
Color
#417caargb(65, 124, 170)hsl(206, 45%, 46%)oklch(0.567 0.094 244.1)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 #417caa: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Royal Blue is #417caa'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 #417caa: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sienna sits directly opposite #417caa 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 #417caa in 9 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Wired's brand system, as the supporting colour.
4 real palettes, including Activision's brand system and Pixar's brand system put Blue beside #417caa, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #417caa: 8 real palettes, including Hershey's's brand system and Glacier, as the supporting colour.
Crimson is paired with #417caa in 16 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
| #417caa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.48:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.69:1 | 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 #417caa as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#417caa 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 #417caa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/417caa-9caec4-df4e56-1f212d-e9f1f1?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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