Golden Hour
Open in tool →Apricot into coral into plum — a sunset flattened to three tokens, with the plum doubling as the twilight text colour.
Color
#30182frgb(48, 24, 47)hsl(302, 33%, 14%)oklch(0.253 0.054 328.5)Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Sea Green 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 #30182f: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green is a split-complement of #30182f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sea Green sits directly opposite #30182f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Slate Blue is #30182f's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal is a split-complement of #30182f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber is paired with #30182f in 15 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Warner Bros.'s brand system, as the accent.
21 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Burger King's brand system put Blue beside #30182f, as the accent.
Blue Violet is paired with #30182f in 9 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
| #30182f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.19:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.3:1 | 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 #30182f as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#30182f 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 #30182f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/30182f-c19fbc-91cb62-2d1f27-eee9f1?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