Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Color
#7a482argb(122, 72, 42)hsl(23, 49%, 32%)oklch(0.454 0.081 50.5)Champagne, Copper and Rust 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.
Champagne is paired with #7a482a in 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper is paired with #7a482a in 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Rust is #7a482a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sage Green is paired with #7a482a in 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Homestead, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray is paired with #7a482a in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Sepia Mono, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Steel Blue sits directly opposite #7a482a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Teal is a split-complement of #7a482a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal is the body-text near-black for #7a482a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
| #7a482a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.53:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.79:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #7a482a as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#7a482a reads as warm. 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 #7a482a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/7a482a-c4b09c-62cbc0-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?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