Still Water
Open in tool →Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Color
#4c889e
#4c889e
hex
#4c889ergb
rgb(76, 136, 158)hsl
hsl(196, 35%, 46%)oklch
oklch(0.595 0.071 223.9)Closest name: Blue Moon (#3992a8)Relative luminance 0.2161
Colors that go with #4c889e
Charcoal, Copper and Cobalt 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #4c889e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
complementaryshippedCopper sits directly opposite #4c889e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #4c889e: 6 real palettes, including Hershey's's brand system and Glacier, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #4c889e in 9 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Redfin's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #4c889e: 14 real palettes, including Campus and Peacock, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #4c889e in 5 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Sapphire & Gold, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped10 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Discover's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #4c889e, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Mid-Century put Peru beside #4c889e, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #4c889e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4c889e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.95:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.32:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4c889e 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
Fonts for this mood
#4c889e reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #4c889e
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 #4c889e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/4c889e-9cb5c4-df4e6e-1f232d-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