Color
#6d9dab
#6d9dabrgb(109, 157, 171)hsl(194, 27%, 55%)oklch(0.667 0.055 217.9)Colors that go with #6d9dab
Charcoal, Terracotta 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 #6d9dab: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Terracotta #e2725b
complementaryshippedTerracotta sits directly opposite #6d9dab 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 Estate and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #6d9dab, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #6d9dab in 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Polaroid, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #6d9dab: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Atelier, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #6d9dab: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including Open House and Ford's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #6d9dab, as the text colour against it.
Orange #ffa500
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite and Gopro's brand system put Orange beside #6d9dab, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #6d9dab
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #6d9dab as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.97:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.06:1 | 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 #6d9dab 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 #6d9dab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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