Paper & Pine
Open in tool →Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.
Color
#8ea999rgb(142, 169, 153)hsl(144, 14%, 61%)oklch(0.71 0.038 159.3)Charcoal, Blue and Burlywood 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 #8ea999: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue is paired with #8ea999 in 4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and League of Legends's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood is paired with #8ea999 in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne is paired with #8ea999 in 5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper is paired with #8ea999 in 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green is paired with #8ea999 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim is paired with #8ea999 in 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Pale Violet Red sits directly opposite #8ea999 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
| #8ea999 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.53:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.29:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8ea999 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 #8ea999 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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