Dusty Blue
Open in tool →Dusty blue and mist with a nude accent — the quiet wedding palette; nothing here competes with a photograph.
Color
#6c8fac
#6c8fac
hex
#6c8facrgb
rgb(108, 143, 172)hsl
hsl(207, 28%, 55%)oklch
oklch(0.635 0.059 243.9)Closest name: Cavolo Nero (#72939e)Relative luminance 0.2581
Colors that go with #6c8fac
Charcoal, Copper 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 #6c8fac: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
complementaryshippedCopper sits directly opposite #6c8fac on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #6c8fac: 5 real palettes, including Hershey's's brand system and Ink & Paper, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #6c8fac in 6 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Diner, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #6c8fac: 9 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped11 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and SoFi's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #6c8fac, as the supporting colour.
Orange #ffa500
shipped4 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Campus put Orange beside #6c8fac, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #6c8fac: 5 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #6c8fac
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #6c8fac as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.41:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.16:1 | 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 #6c8fac 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #6c8fac
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 #6c8fac and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/6c8fac-9cadc4-df4e53-1f212d-e9f1f1?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