Dusk
Open in tool →Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.
Color
#8e91afrgb(142, 145, 175)hsl(235, 17%, 62%)oklch(0.665 0.044 280.6)Charcoal, Blush Pink and Copper 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 #8e91af: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
4 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #8e91af, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Copper with #8e91af: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Atelier, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #8e91af: 4 real palettes, including Telegram's brand system and Snowflake AI Data Cloud's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #8e91af: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
7 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #8e91af, as the text colour against it.
Peru is a split-complement of #8e91af: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Designers have shipped Powder Blue with #8e91af: 5 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
| #8e91af as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.08:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.82:1 | 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 #8e91af 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 #8e91af and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/8e91af-9e9cc4-df8d4e-241f2d-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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