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
#acc0c9rgb(172, 192, 201)hsl(199, 21%, 73%)oklch(0.795 0.025 226.6)Charcoal, Copper and Crimson 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 that reads cleanly against #acc0c9 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Designers have shipped Copper with #acc0c9: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson is paired with #acc0c9 in 6 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #acc0c9: 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #acc0c9: 6 real palettes, including Open House and Nikon's brand system, as the lead colour.
8 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Telehealth put Midnight Blue beside #acc0c9, as the text colour against it.
4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #acc0c9, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue is paired with #acc0c9 in 4 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour.
| #acc0c9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.89:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.14:1 | 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 #acc0c9 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#acc0c9 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 #acc0c9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/acc0c9-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-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