Color
#69a4ba
#69a4bargb(105, 164, 186)hsl(196, 37%, 57%)oklch(0.686 0.069 223.6)Colors that go with #69a4ba
Charcoal, Peru 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 #69a4ba: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Peru #cd853f
complementaryshippedPeru sits directly opposite #69a4ba on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #69a4ba in 5 real palettes, including Blueprint and NBA's brand system, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #69a4ba in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Coastal, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #69a4ba: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #69a4ba: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #69a4ba: 4 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Patreon's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #69a4ba, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #69a4ba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #69a4ba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.76:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.62:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #69a4ba as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#69a4ba reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #69a4ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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