Dusk
Open in tool →Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.
Color
#486293rgb(72, 98, 147)hsl(219, 34%, 43%)oklch(0.498 0.085 262.4)Charcoal, Sea Green and Sienna 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 #486293: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green completes a triad with #486293 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna sits directly opposite #486293 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 #486293 in 8 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the supporting colour.
4 real palettes, including Activision's brand system and Costco's brand system put Blue beside #486293, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #486293: 6 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Glacier, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with #486293 in 17 real palettes, including Wendy's's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Dodger Blue with #486293: 4 real palettes, including Venmo's brand system and Apple's brand system, as the lead colour.
| #486293 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.1:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.44:1 | 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 #486293 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 #486293 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/486293-9ca5c4-df664e-211f2d-e9f0f1?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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