Trailhead
Open in tool →Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.
Color
#38591drgb(56, 89, 29)hsl(93, 51%, 23%)oklch(0.424 0.096 133.4)Charcoal, Crimson and Saddle Brown 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 #38591d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson completes a triad with #38591d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Designers have shipped Saddle Brown with #38591d: 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Cider, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Sage Green with #38591d: 7 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Taupe is paired with #38591d in 14 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Bookshop, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Orchid sits directly opposite #38591d 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 #38591d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
3 real palettes, including Darkroom and Sweetgreen's brand system put Champagne beside #38591d, as the surface under it.
| #38591d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.03:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.61:1 | 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 #38591d as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#38591d 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 #38591d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/38591d-abbea2-584edf-202d1f-f0f1e9?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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