Clay & Linen
Open in tool →Terracotta, stone and olive on linen — the earth-tone default for ceramics, skincare and anything hand-made.
Color
#596b4crgb(89, 107, 76)hsl(95, 17%, 36%)oklch(0.504 0.052 132.5)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 #596b4c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Slate Blue sits directly opposite #596b4c 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 #596b4c.
Designers have shipped Copper with #596b4c: 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with #596b4c in 6 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #596b4c: 8 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod shows up next to #596b4c in 5 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Fireside, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #596b4c, as the lead colour.
| #596b4c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.78:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.63:1 | 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 #596b4c as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Terracotta, stone and olive on linen — the earth-tone default for ceramics, skincare and anything hand-made.
Fern and lichen with a fungus orange on a fir-black — the forest floor at dusk, as a dark theme.
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 #596b4c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/596b4c-aabea2-5d4edf-1f2d20-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