Color
#949bad
#949badrgb(148, 155, 173)hsl(223, 13%, 63%)oklch(0.69 0.028 268.7)Colors that go with #949bad
Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #949bad without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #949bad in 5 real palettes, including Estate and Garden Wedding, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #949bad in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Kiln, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #949bad in 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #949bad in 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #949bad in 7 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #949bad in 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Stone, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #949bad in 4 real palettes, including Brilliant's brand system and Confluent's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #949bad
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #949bad as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.78:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.55:1 | 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 #949bad as the background.
Brands using this color
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 #949bad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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