Trailhead
Open in tool →Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.
Color
#404e12rgb(64, 78, 18)hsl(74, 63%, 19%)oklch(0.399 0.084 121.8)Saddle Brown, Sage Green and Blue Violet 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.
Designers have shipped Saddle Brown with #404e12: 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Domino's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Sage Green with #404e12: 7 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet sits directly opposite #404e12 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Royal Blue is a split-complement of #404e12: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
3 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system put Blue beside #404e12, as the supporting colour.
3 real palettes, including Sweetgreen's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #404e12, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #404e12: 3 real palettes, including Desert Road and Notion's brand system, as the lead colour.
Cream is the surface #404e12 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #404e12 reads softer on it than on pure white.
| #404e12 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.07:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.32:1 | 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 #404e12 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#404e12 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 #404e12 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/404e12-b4bea2-4e72df-242d1f-f1efe9?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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