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
#5c8ea3rgb(92, 142, 163)hsl(198, 28%, 50%)oklch(0.619 0.062 226.4)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 #5c8ea3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper sits directly opposite #5c8ea3 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #5c8ea3: 5 real palettes, including Hershey's's brand system and Ink & Paper, as the supporting colour.
Crimson is paired with #5c8ea3 in 5 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Diner, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #5c8ea3: 4 real palettes, including Telegram's brand system and Astro's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #5c8ea3: 12 real palettes, including Dusk and Peacock, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Firebrick with #5c8ea3: 4 real palettes, including Honda's brand system and Wendy's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod shows up next to #5c8ea3 in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
| #5c8ea3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.59:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.85:1 | 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 #5c8ea3 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 #5c8ea3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/5c8ea3-9cb3c4-df4e69-1f232d-e9f1f0?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