Cider
Open in tool →Rust, honey and a moss green on cream — the orchard palette; the green keeps it from being all one temperature.
Color
#516c3drgb(81, 108, 61)hsl(94, 28%, 33%)oklch(0.497 0.077 132.9)Charcoal, Blue 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 body-text near-black for #516c3d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
4 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #516c3d, as the supporting colour.
6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #516c3d, as that palette's text colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #516c3d: 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with #516c3d in 5 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #516c3d: 5 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue is paired with #516c3d in 6 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and Coinbase's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Slate Blue is a split-complement of #516c3d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
| #516c3d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.9:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.56:1 | 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 #516c3d as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #516c3d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/516c3d-abbea2-5a4edf-1f2d1f-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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