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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
#8285a6rgb(130, 133, 166)hsl(235, 17%, 58%)oklch(0.626 0.05 280.8)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 #8285a6: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper is a split-complement of #8285a6: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Designers have shipped Denim with #8285a6: 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Campus, as the lead colour.
8 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #8285a6, as the supporting colour.
4 real palettes, including Campus and Graphite put Orange beside #8285a6, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #8285a6, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Powder Blue with #8285a6: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
Taupe is paired with #8285a6 in 19 real palettes, including Dusk and Still Water, as the text colour against it.
| #8285a6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.59:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.85:1 | 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 #8285a6 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.
Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.
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 #8285a6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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