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
#618b98
#618b98
hex
#618b98rgb
rgb(97, 139, 152)hsl
hsl(194, 22%, 49%)oklch
oklch(0.611 0.05 219.1)Closest name: Arctic (#648589)Relative luminance 0.2327
Colors that go with #618b98
Charcoal, Copper and Champagne 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 #618b98: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
complementaryshippedCopper sits directly opposite #618b98 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #618b98, as that palette's text colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #618b98: 5 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Hershey's's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #618b98 in 8 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Diner, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #618b98: 13 real palettes, including Campus and Peacock, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #618b98: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Honda's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #618b98 in 5 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #618b98
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #618b98 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.71:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.65:1 | 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 #618b98 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
mcpConnect your agent — build around #618b98
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #618b98 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/618b98-9cb6c4-df4e72-1f242d-e9f1ef?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