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
#57909ergb(87, 144, 158)hsl(192, 29%, 48%)oklch(0.619 0.063 215.2)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 #57909e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper is a split-complement of #57909e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #57909e: 5 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Hershey's's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson is paired with #57909e in 7 real palettes, including Diner and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #57909e: 13 real palettes, including Peacock and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod shows up next to #57909e in 5 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
10 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Ford's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #57909e, as that palette's text colour.
4 real palettes, including Estate and Paper & Pine put Peru beside #57909e, as the lead colour.
| #57909e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.57:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.89:1 | 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 #57909e 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 #57909e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/57909e-a2b5be-df4e77-1f242d-e9f1ef?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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