Magazine Ochre
Open in tool →Ochre and walnut on unbleached stock, with teal as the counterpoint — a features-section palette with some heat in it.
Color
#117472rgb(17, 116, 114)hsl(179, 74%, 26%)oklch(0.507 0.083 192.7)Charcoal, Crimson 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 is the text near-black for #117472: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson sits directly opposite #117472 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #117472: 5 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Ink & Paper, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #117472: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #117472: 10 real palettes, including The New York Times's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Firebrick with #117472: 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod shows up next to #117472 in 4 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Sapphire & Gold, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green is paired with #117472 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Indigo SaaS, as the lead colour.
| #117472 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 5.58:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.76:1 | 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 #117472 as the background.
Ochre and walnut on unbleached stock, with teal as the counterpoint — a features-section palette with some heat in it.
Saffron and clove with a teal counterpoint — spice-market warmth, balanced so it doesn't go orange everywhere.
Emerald, amethyst and ruby on velvet-black — the jewel-tone trio; the surface must be dark or the stones go plastic.
#117472 reads as vivid, dark, luxury. 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 #117472 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/117472-a2bbbe-d45996-1f272d-e9f1ed?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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