Color
#6d8288
#6d8288rgb(109, 130, 136)hsl(193, 11%, 48%)oklch(0.592 0.026 216.9)Colors that go with #6d8288
Charcoal, Champagne 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 that reads cleanly against #6d8288 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #6d8288, as that palette's text colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #6d8288: 5 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #6d8288: 6 real palettes, including Atelier and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #6d8288 in 7 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Redfin's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #6d8288: 12 real palettes, including Campus and Peacock, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #6d8288 in 6 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Tide Pool put Midnight Blue beside #6d8288, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #6d8288
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #6d8288 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.04:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.2:1 | 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 #6d8288 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 #6d8288 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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