Dusk
Open in tool →Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.
Color
#9195bargb(145, 149, 186)hsl(234, 23%, 65%)oklch(0.68 0.055 280)Charcoal, Dark Goldenrod and Amber 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 #9195ba: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Goldenrod sits directly opposite #9195ba on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber is paired with #9195ba in 4 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #9195ba: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #9195ba: 5 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Snowflake AI Data Cloud's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #9195ba: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
8 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #9195ba, as the text colour against it.
Periwinkle shows up next to #9195ba in 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Calendly's brand system, as the accent.
| #9195ba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.91:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.21:1 | 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 #9195ba 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 #9195ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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