Maple
Open in tool →The three colours a maple goes through in October, on a warm white — loud, seasonal, and readable because the type is near-black.
Color
#c0263argb(192, 38, 58)hsl(352, 67%, 45%)oklch(0.529 0.188 20.3)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 #c0263a — 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 #c0263a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal sits directly opposite #c0263a 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 #c0263a in 6 real palettes, including Maple and Ember, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system put Blue beside #c0263a, as the accent.
Charcoal is the body-text near-black for #c0263a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #c0263a: 4 real palettes, including MLB's brand system and Behance's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green shows up next to #c0263a in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Farmers Market, as the lead colour.
| #c0263a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.87:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.58:1 | 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 #c0263a as the background.
#c0263a reads as warm, vivid, playful. 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 #c0263a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/c0263a-c49c9d-62cb8a-2d231f-f1e9ee?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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