Slate Workspace
Open in tool →Slate on slate with a single blue — the productivity-app look where the interface disappears behind the work.
Color
#696d86
#696d86
hex
#696d86rgb
rgb(105, 109, 134)hsl
hsl(232, 12%, 47%)oklch
oklch(0.541 0.039 277.9)Closest name: Dark Prince (#6b6c89)Relative luminance 0.1566
Colors that go with #696d86
Charcoal, Amber 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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #696d86: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #696d86 in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #696d86, as that palette's text colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #696d86: 5 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #696d86: 6 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #696d86 in 8 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #696d86: 8 real palettes, including Campus and The New York Times's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #696d86 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 #696d86
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #696d86 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.08:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.13:1 | 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 #696d86 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Clinic
Open in tool →Teal reads clinical without the coldness of pure blue; the coral accent adds warmth for reassurance moments.
Campus
Open in tool →Institutional blue with a highlighter-amber accent — trustworthy for parents, lively enough for students.
mcpConnect your agent — build around #696d86
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #696d86 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/696d86-9c9dc4-df864e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md