Dusk
Open in tool →Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.
Color
#585e8drgb(88, 94, 141)hsl(233, 23%, 45%)oklch(0.497 0.075 277.7)Charcoal, Amber 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 #585e8d: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber is paired with #585e8d in 5 real palettes, including Warner Bros.'s brand system and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #585e8d: 5 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Ink & Paper, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with #585e8d in 12 real palettes, including Amazon's brand system and Marvel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Firebrick with #585e8d: 6 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and Wendy's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod shows up next to #585e8d in 4 real palettes, including Open House and Sapphire & Gold, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Light Coral with #585e8d: 4 real palettes, including Sentry's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Steel Blue is #585e8d's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
| #585e8d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.18:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.4:1 | 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 #585e8d 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 #585e8d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/585e8d-9c9cc4-df884e-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