Arctic
Open in tool →Navy type on white with an ice-blue accent: crisp and corporate without going grey.
Color
#6f96ae
#6f96ae
hex
#6f96aergb
rgb(111, 150, 174)hsl
hsl(203, 28%, 56%)oklch
oklch(0.653 0.056 235.8)Closest name: Cavolo Nero (#72939e)Relative luminance 0.2825
Colors that go with #6f96ae
Charcoal, Copper 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 #6f96ae: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
complementaryshippedCopper sits directly opposite #6f96ae 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 #6f96ae, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #6f96ae: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Open House and Plaid's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #6f96ae, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #6f96ae: 5 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #6f96ae in 7 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Elastic's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
shippedSky Blue is paired with #6f96ae in 4 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Still Water, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #6f96ae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #6f96ae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.16:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.65:1 | 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 #6f96ae 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 #6f96ae
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 #6f96ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/6f96ae-9cb0c4-df4e5d-1f222d-e9f1f0?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