Maple
Open in tool →The three colours a maple goes through in October, on a warm white — loud, seasonal, and readable because the type is near-black.
Color
#261508rgb(38, 21, 8)hsl(26, 65%, 9%)oklch(0.216 0.036 57)Charcoal, Royal Blue and Rust 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 #261508: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue is a split-complement of #261508: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Rust is #261508's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Slate Blue completes a triad with #261508 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue sits directly opposite #261508 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Teal is a split-complement of #261508: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber is paired with #261508 in 18 real palettes, including Heatwave and Maple, as the supporting colour.
23 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Signal's brand system put Blue beside #261508, as the supporting colour.
| #261508 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 17.6:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.19:1 | 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 #261508 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
The three colours a maple goes through in October, on a warm white — loud, seasonal, and readable because the type is near-black.
Blaze orange and hot yellow with one cold blue — the high-noon palette; use the blue where the eye needs to rest.
Red through orange to yellow — the poured-drink gradient as flat tokens; use it left-to-right, never all at once.
#261508 reads as warm, vivid, 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 #261508 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/261508-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?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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