Desert Road
Open in tool →Sandstone and sand with a deep teal — the one cool note makes the warm colours look intentional rather than beige.
Color
#435a60
#435a60
hex
#435a60rgb
rgb(67, 90, 96)hsl
hsl(192, 18%, 32%)oklch
oklch(0.451 0.029 215.5)Closest name: Arctic Nights (#345c61)Relative luminance 0.0935
Colors that go with #435a60
Blue, Blush Pink and Cadet Blue 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Jeep's brand system put Blue beside #435a60, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Nursery and Blush put Blush Pink beside #435a60, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #435a60: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #435a60: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #435a60: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #435a60 in 5 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #435a60 in 5 real palettes, including Console Light and Undergrowth, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #435a60 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #435a60
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #435a60 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.32:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.87:1 | 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 #435a60 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
mcpConnect your agent — build around #435a60
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #435a60 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/435a60-a2b5be-df4e77-1f242d-e9f1ef?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