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
#d6d7bcrgb(214, 215, 188)hsl(62, 25%, 79%)oklch(0.871 0.036 108.9)Charcoal, Lilac and Sand 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 body-text near-black for #d6d7bc: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac sits directly opposite #d6d7bc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sand is #d6d7bc's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue completes a triad with #d6d7bc — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber is paired with #d6d7bc in 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #d6d7bc, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #d6d7bc, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #d6d7bc: 7 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
| #d6d7bc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.47:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.31:1 | 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 #d6d7bc as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#d6d7bc reads as muted, light, 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 #d6d7bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/d6d7bc-babea2-4e8fdf-272d1f-f1eee9?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