Midnight Luxe
Open in tool →Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.
Color
#8680a3rgb(134, 128, 163)hsl(250, 16%, 57%)oklch(0.618 0.053 292.6)Charcoal, Copper and Champagne 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 #8680a3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper is a split-complement of #8680a3: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #8680a3, as that palette's text colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #8680a3: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Campus, as the lead colour.
6 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #8680a3, as the supporting colour.
5 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #8680a3, as the lead colour.
Taupe is paired with #8680a3 in 20 real palettes, including Typewriter and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Olive Green sits directly opposite #8680a3 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
| #8680a3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.73:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.63:1 | 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 #8680a3 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 #8680a3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/8680a3-a79cc4-dfb14e-281f2d-e9ecf1?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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