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
#61888frgb(97, 136, 143)hsl(189, 19%, 47%)oklch(0.6 0.044 209.8)Charcoal, Copper and Blush Pink 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 #61888f: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper is a split-complement of #61888f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
4 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #61888f, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #61888f, as that palette's text colour.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #61888f: 5 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson is paired with #61888f in 8 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Redfin's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #61888f: 13 real palettes, including Campus and Peacock, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod shows up next to #61888f in 5 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
| #61888f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.87:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.43:1 | 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 #61888f 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 #61888f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/61888f-a2b7be-df4e7e-1f252d-e9f1ee?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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