Clay & Linen
Open in tool →Terracotta, stone and olive on linen — the earth-tone default for ceramics, skincare and anything hand-made.
Color
#586e4ergb(88, 110, 78)hsl(101, 17%, 37%)oklch(0.511 0.056 136.1)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 #586e4e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Slate Blue sits directly opposite #586e4e 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 Forest Floor and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #586e4e, as that palette's text colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #586e4e: 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with #586e4e in 6 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #586e4e: 9 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod shows up next to #586e4e in 4 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Fireside, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #586e4e, as the lead colour.
| #586e4e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 5.59:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.76:1 | 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 #586e4e 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 #586e4e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/586e4e-a7bea2-6b4edf-1f2d21-eff1e9?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