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
#ca1625rgb(202, 22, 37)hsl(355, 80%, 44%)oklch(0.535 0.207 25.3)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 #ca1625 — 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 #ca1625: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal sits directly opposite #ca1625 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 #ca1625 in 4 real palettes, including Maple and Ember, as the accent.
7 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and native Cybersecurity's brand system put Blue beside #ca1625, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green shows up next to #ca1625 in 5 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #ca1625: 11 real palettes, including AT&T's brand system and Amazon's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal is the body-text near-black for #ca1625: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
| #ca1625 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.75:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.65:1 | 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 #ca1625 as the background.
#ca1625 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 #ca1625 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ca1625-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?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