Named color
Alley Cat
#656874rgb(101, 104, 116)hsl(228, 7%, 43%)oklch(0.519 0.019 274.6)Alley Cat on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
Colors that go with Alley Cat
Charcoal, Champagne and Cobalt Blue 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 Alley Cat without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside Alley Cat.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with Alley Cat: 4 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with Alley Cat: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with Alley Cat in 8 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Gemstone, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with Alley Cat: 11 real palettes, including Campus and The New York Times's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with Alley Cat: 5 real palettes, including Newsprint and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to Alley Cat in 7 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Open House, as the accent.
Real palettes that use Alley Cat
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Alley Cat as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.55:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.79:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with Alley Cat as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
Alley Cat reads as neutral, minimal. 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 #656874 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/656874-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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