Mid-Century
Open in tool →Tangerine, teal and mustard on cream — the 1960s lounge trio, one of the few retro palettes with real hue contrast.
Color
#33716ergb(51, 113, 110)hsl(177, 38%, 32%)oklch(0.507 0.064 191.1)Charcoal, Crimson and Champagne 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 #33716e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson sits directly opposite #33716e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #33716e, as the surface under it.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #33716e: 4 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Copper with #33716e: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #33716e: 10 real palettes, including The New York Times's brand system and Campus, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Firebrick with #33716e: 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod shows up next to #33716e in 4 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Sapphire & Gold, as the accent.
| #33716e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 #33716e as the background.
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 #33716e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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