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
#44575argb(68, 87, 90)hsl(188, 14%, 31%)oklch(0.442 0.024 208.1)Cadet Blue, Copper and Crimson 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 #44575a: 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #44575a: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with #44575a in 4 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Denim with #44575a: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod shows up next to #44575a in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green is paired with #44575a in 5 real palettes, including Console Light and Undergrowth, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including First Snow and Microsoft's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #44575a, as that palette's text colour.
White Smoke is the near-white surface #44575a was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
| #44575a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.62:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.76:1 | 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 #44575a 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 #44575a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/44575a-a2b7be-df4e81-1f252d-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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