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Color
#16110drgb(22, 17, 13)hsl(27, 26%, 7%)oklch(0.182 0.012 60.7)Charcoal, Amber and 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 that reads cleanly against #16110d without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber is paired with #16110d in 18 real palettes, including Ember and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
22 real palettes, including native Cybersecurity's brand system and EA's brand system put Blue beside #16110d, as the accent.
Blue Violet is paired with #16110d in 10 real palettes, including Prepare your taste buds...'s brand system and Klarna US's brand system, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Garnet put Brown beside #16110d, as the supporting colour.
4 real palettes, including Mailchimp's brand system and Qatar Airways's brand system put Burgundy beside #16110d, as the accent.
Burlywood is paired with #16110d in 5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Velvet, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #16110d: 10 real palettes, including Estate and Diner, as the supporting colour.
| #16110d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 18.75:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.12:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #16110d as the background.
Red, black and yellow on white is the loudest three-color system in print — use it when headlines are the product.
Purple-and-lime is the challenger-bank uniform — high energy, and clearly not a legacy bank.
Black on bone with a whisper of gold: the runway default that lets garments carry the color.
Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.
One neon on white with black type — lime-and-black is the neon that works in daylight; the orange is a second gear.
Five greys, no hue — the true monochrome; the accent is a lighter grey, so hierarchy comes from weight and size alone.
Greys on near-black — the monochrome dark mode; keep everything a tint of white and the layout does the talking.
#16110d reads as warm, muted, dark. 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 #16110d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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