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
#b4c3cfrgb(180, 195, 207)hsl(207, 22%, 76%)oklch(0.809 0.024 242)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 #b4c3cf without the hard edge of pure #000.
Designers have shipped Copper with #b4c3cf: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson is paired with #b4c3cf in 5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #b4c3cf: 6 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #b4c3cf: 4 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and Fitbit's brand system, as the supporting colour.
9 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #b4c3cf, as the text colour against it.
4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #b4c3cf, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Sage Green with #b4c3cf: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
| #b4c3cf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.8:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.65:1 | 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 #b4c3cf as the background.
Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Dusty blue and mist with a nude accent — the quiet wedding palette; nothing here competes with a photograph.
#b4c3cf 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 #b4c3cf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/b4c3cf-9cadc4-df4e53-1f212d-e9f1f1?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