Graphite
Open in tool →A greyscale system with a single amber — the accent does all the work, so allow one per screen.
Color
#747581rgb(116, 117, 129)hsl(235, 5%, 48%)oklch(0.566 0.018 282)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 is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #747581 without the hard edge of pure #000.
6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #747581, as that palette's text colour.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #747581: 4 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Copper with #747581: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Atelier, as the accent.
Crimson is paired with #747581 in 7 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Redfin's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #747581: 12 real palettes, including Campus and The New York Times's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod shows up next to #747581 in 6 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
10 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Lufthansa's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #747581, as the supporting colour.
| #747581 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.56:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.6:1 | 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 #747581 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
A greyscale system with a single amber — the accent does all the work, so allow one per screen.
The dependable indigo-and-emerald B2B pairing: indigo for primary actions, emerald reserved for success states.
Five greys, no hue — the true monochrome; the accent is a lighter grey, so hierarchy comes from weight and size alone.
#747581 reads as neutral, minimal. 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 #747581 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/747581-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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