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
#277271rgb(39, 114, 113)hsl(179, 49%, 30%)oklch(0.506 0.072 193.9)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 #277271: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson sits directly opposite #277271 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 #277271: 5 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Copper with #277271: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #277271: 11 real palettes, including The New York Times's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Firebrick with #277271: 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod shows up next to #277271 in 4 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Sapphire & Gold, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green is paired with #277271 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Indigo SaaS, as the lead colour.
| #277271 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 5.63:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.73:1 | 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 #277271 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
Tangerine, teal and mustard on cream — the 1960s lounge trio, one of the few retro palettes with real hue contrast.
Emerald, amethyst and ruby on velvet-black — the jewel-tone trio; the surface must be dark or the stones go plastic.
#277271 reads as dark, luxury, bold. 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 #277271 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/277271-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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