Clay & Linen
Open in tool →Terracotta, stone and olive on linen — the earth-tone default for ceramics, skincare and anything hand-made.
Color
#526840rgb(82, 104, 64)hsl(93, 24%, 33%)oklch(0.488 0.066 131.9)Charcoal, Slate 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 #526840: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Slate Blue sits directly opposite #526840 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #526840.
Designers have shipped Copper with #526840: 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with #526840 in 6 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #526840: 7 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Medium Sea Green is paired with #526840 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Console Light, as the lead colour.
4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Graphite put Orange beside #526840, as the accent.
| #526840 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 6.15:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.41:1 | 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 #526840 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 #526840 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/526840-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.
Machine-readable: color.md