Dusk
Open in tool →Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.
Color
#585b84rgb(88, 91, 132)hsl(236, 20%, 43%)oklch(0.486 0.066 280.4)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 #585b84: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Steel Blue is #585b84'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 #585b84 in 4 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Warner Bros.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
4 real palettes, including Activision's brand system and Tesco's brand system put Blue beside #585b84, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #585b84: 6 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Ink & Paper, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with #585b84 in 15 real palettes, including Wells Fargo's brand system and McDonald's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #585b84: 4 real palettes, including Venmo's brand system and Deep Water, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #585b84: 12 real palettes, including HP's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the accent.
| #585b84 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.47:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.24:1 | 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 #585b84 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 #585b84 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/585b84-9e9cc4-df8f4e-241f2d-e9eef1?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