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Color
#868aa2rgb(134, 138, 162)hsl(231, 13%, 58%)oklch(0.638 0.036 277.9)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 #868aa2: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper is a split-complement of #868aa2: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Goldenrod sits directly opposite #868aa2 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood is paired with #868aa2 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coastal, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Denim with #868aa2: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
7 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #868aa2, as the supporting colour.
4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #868aa2, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Powder Blue with #868aa2: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Stone, as the lead colour.
| #868aa2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.4:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.17:1 | 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 #868aa2 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 #868aa2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/868aa2-9c9ec4-df834e-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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