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
#435960rgb(67, 89, 96)hsl(194, 18%, 32%)oklch(0.449 0.029 219.3)Cadet Blue, Copper and Denim 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.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #435960: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #435960: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #435960: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod shows up next to #435960 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green is paired with #435960 in 5 real palettes, including Console Light and Undergrowth, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #435960, as that palette's text colour.
Designers have shipped Powder Blue with #435960: 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Stone, as the accent.
White Smoke is the near-white surface #435960 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
| #435960 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.4:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.84:1 | 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 #435960 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 #435960 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/435960-9cb6c4-df4e72-1f242d-e9f1ef?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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