Color
#688ea1
#688ea1rgb(104, 142, 161)hsl(200, 23%, 52%)oklch(0.625 0.051 230.2)Colors that go with #688ea1
Charcoal, Copper and Blush Pink 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 #688ea1: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
complementaryshippedCopper sits directly opposite #688ea1 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Estate put Blush Pink beside #688ea1, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #688ea1: 4 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Hershey's's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #688ea1 in 5 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Diner, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #688ea1: 9 real palettes, including Dusk and Campus, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #688ea1 in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Ford's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #688ea1, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #688ea1
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #688ea1 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.52:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.97:1 | 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 #688ea1 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 #688ea1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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