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Color
#c04335rgb(192, 67, 53)hsl(6, 57%, 48%)oklch(0.556 0.163 29.6)Charcoal, Royal Blue and Sea Green 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 #c04335: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue completes a triad with #c04335 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green completes a triad with #c04335 — 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 #c04335: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal sits directly opposite #c04335 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 #c04335 in 6 real palettes, including Trailhead and Ember, as the accent.
6 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system put Blue beside #c04335, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #c04335, as the text colour against it.
| #c04335 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.13:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.1:1 | 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 #c04335 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#c04335 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 #c04335 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/c04335-c4a59c-62cba3-2d271f-f1e9ec?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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