Trailhead
Open in tool →Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.
Color
#38570argb(56, 87, 10)hsl(84, 79%, 19%)oklch(0.417 0.106 130.2)Charcoal, Saddle Brown and Sage 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 body-text near-black for #38570a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Designers have shipped Saddle Brown with #38570a: 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Cider, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Sage Green with #38570a: 6 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Taupe is paired with #38570a in 12 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Bookshop, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Orchid sits directly opposite #38570a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Medium Violet Red is a split-complement of #38570a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
3 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #38570a, as the accent.
3 real palettes, including Sweetgreen's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #38570a, as the supporting colour.
| #38570a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.28:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.54:1 | 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 #38570a as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#38570a reads as vivid, dark, luxury. 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 #38570a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/38570a-afbea2-4e5adf-222d1f-f1f0e9?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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