Color
#659f97
#659f97rgb(101, 159, 151)hsl(172, 23%, 51%)oklch(0.66 0.062 184.8)Colors that go with #659f97
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #659f97: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #659f97, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #659f97 in 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Polaroid, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #659f97: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #659f97 in 4 real palettes, including Diner and DuckDuckGo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #659f97 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #659f97: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Peacock, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #659f97 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #659f97
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #659f97 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.02:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.96:1 | 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 #659f97 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 #659f97 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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