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
#e4710crgb(228, 113, 12)hsl(28, 90%, 47%)oklch(0.672 0.17 51.9)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 #e4710c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue sits directly opposite #e4710c 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 #e4710c in 6 real palettes, including Maple and Ember, as the accent.
6 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #e4710c, as the accent.
Burlywood is paired with #e4710c in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #e4710c: 6 real palettes, including Alpine and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #e4710c, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson is paired with #e4710c in 6 real palettes, including Burger King's brand system and Pizza Hut's brand system, as the lead colour.
| #e4710c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.15:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.67:1 | 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 #e4710c as the background.
#e4710c 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 #e4710c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/e4710c-c4b39c-62cbc9-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?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