Color
#616b8f
#616b8frgb(97, 107, 143)hsl(227, 19%, 47%)oklch(0.534 0.058 272.3)Colors that go with #616b8f
Charcoal, Sea Green and Dark Olive Green 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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #616b8f: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #616b8f — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryshippedDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #616b8f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #616b8f in 6 real palettes, including Lemon Squeezy's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #616b8f, as that palette's text colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #616b8f: 6 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Ink & Paper, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #616b8f: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #616b8f in 14 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Marvel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #616b8f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #616b8f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.24:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.01:1 | 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 #616b8f as the background.
Brands using this color
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 #616b8f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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