Color
#42675e
#42675ergb(66, 103, 94)hsl(165, 22%, 33%)oklch(0.483 0.045 177.3)Colors that go with #42675e
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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #42675e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #42675e: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #42675e, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #42675e: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #42675e in 8 real palettes, including Gemstone and Redfin's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
shipped4 real palettes, including Cider and Rolex's brand system put Dark Goldenrod beside #42675e, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #42675e: 11 real palettes, including HP's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the accent.
Rose Gold #b76e79
complementaryRose Gold sits directly opposite #42675e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #42675e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #42675e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.3:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.33:1 | 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 #42675e as the background.
Brands using this color
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 #42675e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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