Dusk
Open in tool →Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.
Color
#56588argb(86, 88, 138)hsl(238, 23%, 44%)oklch(0.481 0.08 281.2)Charcoal, Steel Blue 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 #56588a: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Steel Blue is #56588a'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 #56588a in 4 real palettes, including Warner Bros.'s brand system and McDonald's's brand system, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Activision's brand system and Tesco's brand system put Blue beside #56588a, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #56588a: 6 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Unilever's brand system, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with #56588a in 14 real palettes, including Wells Fargo's brand system and Walgreens's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #56588a: 4 real palettes, including Venmo's brand system and Deep Water, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Firebrick with #56588a: 8 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and AT&T's brand system, as the supporting colour.
| #56588a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.65:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.16:1 | 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 #56588a 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 #56588a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/56588a-9f9cc4-df944e-251f2d-e9edf1?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