Magazine Ochre
Open in tool →Ochre and walnut on unbleached stock, with teal as the counterpoint — a features-section palette with some heat in it.
Color
#695c3frgb(105, 92, 63)hsl(41, 25%, 33%)oklch(0.48 0.046 86.5)Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #695c3f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #695c3f.
Designers have shipped Copper with #695c3f: 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with #695c3f in 4 real palettes, including Gemstone and Five Guys's brand system, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Denim with #695c3f: 6 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Firebrick with #695c3f: 4 real palettes, including Trader Joe's's brand system and Fireside, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Bakery and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #695c3f, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue sits directly opposite #695c3f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
| #695c3f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.56:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.2:1 | 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 #695c3f as the background.
#695c3f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #695c3f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/695c3f-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?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