Dusk
Open in tool →Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.
Color
#545d83rgb(84, 93, 131)hsl(229, 22%, 42%)oklch(0.486 0.062 273.6)Charcoal, Sea Green and Steel 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 #545d83: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green completes a triad with #545d83 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue is #545d83's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Amber is paired with #545d83 in 5 real palettes, including Lemon Squeezy's brand system and Warner Bros.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #545d83: 5 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Ink & Paper, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #545d83: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson is paired with #545d83 in 11 real palettes, including Amazon's brand system and Retro Pop, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #545d83: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the accent.
| #545d83 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 6.42:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.27:1 | 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 #545d83 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 #545d83 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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