Still Water
Open in tool →Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Color
#abc4d4rgb(171, 196, 212)hsl(203, 32%, 75%)oklch(0.807 0.035 236)Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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 #abc4d4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon sits directly opposite #abc4d4 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Designers have shipped Copper with #abc4d4: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson is paired with #abc4d4 in 4 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Cartier's brand system, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #abc4d4: 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #abc4d4: 6 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and Fitbit's brand system, as the supporting colour.
8 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Telehealth put Midnight Blue beside #abc4d4, as the text colour against it.
Designers have shipped Sage Green with #abc4d4: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
| #abc4d4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.81:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.58:1 | 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 #abc4d4 as the background.
#abc4d4 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #abc4d4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/abc4d4-9cb0c4-df4e5d-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md