Mid-Century
Open in tool →Tangerine, teal and mustard on cream — the 1960s lounge trio, one of the few retro palettes with real hue contrast.
Color
#d18329rgb(209, 131, 41)hsl(32, 67%, 49%)oklch(0.678 0.138 64.4)Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Amber 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 #d18329: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue sits directly opposite #d18329 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 #d18329 in 4 real palettes, including Maple and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside #d18329, as the supporting colour.
4 real palettes, including Estate and Blush put Blush Pink beside #d18329, as the accent.
Burlywood is paired with #d18329 in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #d18329: 6 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #d18329, as that palette's text colour.
| #d18329 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.99:1 | 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 #d18329 as the background.
#d18329 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 #d18329 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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