Ember
Open in tool →Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.
Color
#ae3739rgb(174, 55, 57)hsl(359, 52%, 45%)oklch(0.512 0.155 23.6)Royal Blue, Steel Blue and Teal 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.
Royal Blue completes a triad with #ae3739 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue is a split-complement of #ae3739: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal sits directly opposite #ae3739 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber is paired with #ae3739 in 5 real palettes, including Ember and Maple, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #ae3739, as the text colour against it.
Charcoal is the body-text near-black for #ae3739: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #ae3739: 4 real palettes, including MLB's brand system and Behance's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green shows up next to #ae3739 in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and BrandSweets's brand system, as the lead colour.
| #ae3739 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 6.17:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.41:1 | 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 #ae3739 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.
Cranberry, pine and brass on a charcoal night — the holiday palette without the clichés, because the surface is cold.
#ae3739 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 #ae3739 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ae3739-c4a09c-62cb96-2d251f-f1e9ed?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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