Color
#666c85
#666c85rgb(102, 108, 133)hsl(228, 13%, 46%)oklch(0.535 0.04 274.4)Colors that go with #666c85
Charcoal, Sea Green and Amber 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 #666c85: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #666c85 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #666c85 in 5 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #666c85.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #666c85: 5 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #666c85: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #666c85 in 10 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #666c85: 8 real palettes, including Campus and The New York Times's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #666c85
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #666c85 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.19:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.05:1 | 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 #666c85 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 #666c85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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