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
#616a3ergb(97, 106, 62)hsl(72, 26%, 33%)oklch(0.505 0.065 118.2)Charcoal, Royal Blue and Slate Blue 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 #616a3e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue is a split-complement of #616a3e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Slate Blue sits directly opposite #616a3e 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 #616a3e.
Designers have shipped Copper with #616a3e: 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with #616a3e in 4 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #616a3e: 6 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Firebrick with #616a3e: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Fireside, as the lead colour.
| #616a3e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.77:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.64:1 | 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 #616a3e as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Rust, honey and a moss green on cream — the orchard palette; the green keeps it from being all one temperature.
Terracotta, stone and olive on linen — the earth-tone default for ceramics, skincare and anything hand-made.
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 #616a3e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/616a3e-b5bea2-4e77df-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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