Dusk
Open in tool →Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.
Color
#be7d41rgb(190, 125, 65)hsl(29, 49%, 50%)oklch(0.645 0.111 61.4)Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Cornflower 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.
Cadet Blue is a split-complement of #be7d41: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal is the body-text near-black for #be7d41: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue sits directly opposite #be7d41 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #be7d41, as the accent.
Burlywood is paired with #be7d41 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #be7d41, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green shows up next to #be7d41 in 7 real palettes, including Cider and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Denim with #be7d41: 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
| #be7d41 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.39:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.2:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #be7d41 as the background.
#be7d41 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 #be7d41 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/be7d41-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?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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