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Open in tool →Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Color
#d07d11rgb(208, 125, 17)hsl(34, 85%, 44%)oklch(0.665 0.146 64.2)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 #d07d11: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal is the body-text near-black for #d07d11: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue sits directly opposite #d07d11 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 #d07d11 in 4 real palettes, including Maple and Ember, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside #d07d11, as the accent.
Burlywood is paired with #d07d11 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #d07d11, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green shows up next to #d07d11 in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Forest Floor, as the accent.
| #d07d11 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.17:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.62:1 | 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 #d07d11 as the background.
Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Saffron and clove with a teal counterpoint — spice-market warmth, balanced so it doesn't go orange everywhere.
#d07d11 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 #d07d11 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/d07d11-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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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