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Open in tool →Gold on midnight is the private-banking cue; the mint accent keeps it from feeling old-money stuffy.
Color
#8090acrgb(128, 144, 172)hsl(218, 21%, 59%)oklch(0.651 0.046 261.6)Charcoal, Copper and Denim 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 for #8090ac: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper is a split-complement of #8090ac: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Designers have shipped Denim with #8090ac: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
8 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #8090ac, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Powder Blue with #8090ac: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue is paired with #8090ac in 5 real palettes, including Sephora's brand system and Slate Workspace, as the supporting colour.
Taupe is paired with #8090ac in 20 real palettes, including Dusk and Still Water, as the text colour against it.
Teal shows up next to #8090ac in 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Clinic, as the lead colour.
| #8090ac as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.23:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.5:1 | 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 #8090ac as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Gold on midnight is the private-banking cue; the mint accent keeps it from feeling old-money stuffy.
Navy type on white with an ice-blue accent: crisp and corporate without going grey.
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 #8090ac and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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