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Open in tool →Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Color
#fef0dergb(254, 240, 222)hsl(34, 94%, 93%)oklch(0.961 0.028 74.3)Charcoal, Amber and 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.
Charcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against Award Winning White without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber is paired with Award Winning White in 17 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
39 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside Award Winning White, as the accent.
Blue Violet is paired with Award Winning White in 11 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
7 real palettes, including Blush and Nursery put Blush Pink beside Award Winning White, as the supporting colour.
5 real palettes, including Typewriter and Garnet put Brown beside Award Winning White, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Candlelight and Heinz's brand system put Burgundy beside Award Winning White, as the lead colour.
Burlywood is paired with Award Winning White in 7 real palettes, including Kiln and Chalkboard, as the accent.
| Award Winning White as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.12:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 18.73:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with Award Winning White as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Ochre and walnut on unbleached stock, with teal as the counterpoint — a features-section palette with some heat in it.
Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.
Coral, apricot and magenta on aubergine — the gradient sunset every event brand wants, decomposed into flat tokens.
Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.
Fifties-diner red and steel blue with a peach — nostalgic pop that still passes contrast.
Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.
Pumpkin, straw and burnt gold on parchment — the autumn palette that still feels like a product, not a place-mat.
Rust, honey and a moss green on cream — the orchard palette; the green keeps it from being all one temperature.
Terracotta, stone and olive on linen — the earth-tone default for ceramics, skincare and anything hand-made.
Orange, magenta and yellow neon on aubergine-black — the street-sign palette for food, nightlife and events.
Tangerine, teal and mustard on cream — the 1960s lounge trio, one of the few retro palettes with real hue contrast.
Ink-black and ribbon-red on manila — the correspondence palette; all the vintage comes from the paper colour.
Orange and peach on indigo-black with a violet — the last five minutes of a sunset, as a dark mode.
A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Award Winning White reads as warm, vivid, light. 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 #fef0de and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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