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
#558aa5rgb(85, 138, 165)hsl(200, 32%, 49%)oklch(0.607 0.07 231.7)Charcoal, Copper and Amber 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 #558aa5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper sits directly opposite #558aa5 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 #558aa5 in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Wired's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #558aa5: 6 real palettes, including Hershey's's brand system and Glacier, as the supporting colour.
Crimson is paired with #558aa5 in 9 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Redfin's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #558aa5: 6 real palettes, including Telegram's brand system and Deep Water, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #558aa5: 15 real palettes, including Campus and Discover's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Firebrick with #558aa5: 4 real palettes, including Honda's brand system and Wendy's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
| #558aa5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.77:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.56:1 | 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 #558aa5 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 #558aa5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/558aa5-9cb2c4-df4e64-1f232d-e9f1f0?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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