Named color
Cathedral
#acaaa7rgb(172, 170, 167)hsl(36, 3%, 66%)oklch(0.739 0.005 78.3)Cathedral 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 Cathedral
Charcoal, Champagne 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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against Cathedral without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside Cathedral, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with Cathedral: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to Cathedral in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with Cathedral: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with Cathedral in 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside Cathedral, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with Cathedral: 5 real palettes, including Stone and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use Cathedral
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Cathedral as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.32:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.06:1 | 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 Cathedral 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
Cathedral 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 #acaaa7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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