Ledger Dark
Open in tool →Gold on midnight is the private-banking cue; the mint accent keeps it from feeling old-money stuffy.
Color
#838aaargb(131, 138, 170)hsl(229, 19%, 59%)oklch(0.639 0.049 275.3)Charcoal, Copper and Dark Goldenrod 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 #838aaa: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper is a split-complement of #838aaa: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Goldenrod sits directly opposite #838aaa on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Designers have shipped Denim with #838aaa: 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 #838aaa, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Powder Blue with #838aaa: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
Taupe is paired with #838aaa in 20 real palettes, including Dusk and Still Water, as the text colour against it.
3 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #838aaa, as the accent.
| #838aaa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.4:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.18:1 | 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 #838aaa as the background.
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 #838aaa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/838aaa-9c9fc4-df7e4e-231f2d-e9eef1?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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