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
#65849argb(101, 132, 154)hsl(205, 21%, 50%)oklch(0.598 0.049 239.5)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 is the text near-black for #65849a: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper sits directly opposite #65849a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #65849a, as that palette's text colour.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #65849a: 6 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Crimson is paired with #65849a in 10 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Redfin's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #65849a: 4 real palettes, including Telegram's brand system and Deep Water, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #65849a: 15 real palettes, including Campus and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Firebrick with #65849a: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Honda's brand system, as the lead colour.
| #65849a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.95:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.32:1 | 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 #65849a 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 #65849a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/65849a-9cafc4-df4e58-1f212d-e9f1f0?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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