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
#528f98rgb(82, 143, 152)hsl(188, 30%, 46%)oklch(0.612 0.065 207.8)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 is the text near-black for #528f98: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper is a split-complement of #528f98: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #528f98: 5 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson is paired with #528f98 in 6 real palettes, including Diner and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #528f98: 12 real palettes, including Peacock and Campus, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod shows up next to #528f98 in 5 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
8 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Ford's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #528f98, as that palette's text colour.
4 real palettes, including Estate and Paper & Pine put Peru beside #528f98, as the lead colour.
| #528f98 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.66:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.74:1 | 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 #528f98 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 #528f98 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/528f98-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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