Color
#666aa9
#666aa9rgb(102, 106, 169)hsl(236, 28%, 53%)oklch(0.548 0.098 279.9)Colors that go with #666aa9
Charcoal, Amber and Cobalt Blue 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 #666aa9: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #666aa9 in 7 real palettes, including Warner Bros.'s brand system and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #666aa9: 7 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Glacier, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #666aa9 in 11 real palettes, including Marvel's brand system and Retro Pop, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #666aa9: 5 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and AT&T's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #666aa9 in 4 real palettes, including Open House and Sapphire & Gold, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Marvel's brand system and Fintech Trust put Midnight Blue beside #666aa9, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #666aa9 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #666aa9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #666aa9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.2:1 | 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 #666aa9 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 #666aa9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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