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Open in tool →Red, black and yellow on white is the loudest three-color system in print — use it when headlines are the product.
Brand color
#0d0e10rgb(13, 14, 16)hsl(220, 10%, 6%)oklch(0.164 0.005 264.4)Linear Text on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the 106 public brands that use it and the palettes it appears in.
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 Linear Text without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber is paired with Linear Text in 18 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
21 real palettes, including native Cybersecurity's brand system and EA's brand system put Blue beside Linear Text, as the accent.
Blue Violet is paired with Linear Text in 10 real palettes, including Twitch's brand system and Render's brand system, as the lead colour.
4 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Velvet put Brown beside Linear Text, as the supporting colour.
4 real palettes, including Mailchimp's brand system and Rare Beauty's brand system put Burgundy beside Linear Text, as the accent.
Burlywood is paired with Linear Text in 4 real palettes, including Velvet and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with Linear Text: 7 real palettes, including Estate and Diner, as the supporting colour.
| Linear Text as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 19.31:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.09:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with Linear Text as the background.
Red, black and yellow on white is the loudest three-color system in print — use it when headlines are the product.
Green for success, blue for links, pink for emphasis — the dark-mode developer family, tuned to sit on near-black without glare.
Violet plus cyan is the current AI-product signal — pair it with pure black type to keep it from going candy.
Purple-and-lime is the challenger-bank uniform — high energy, and clearly not a legacy bank.
Black, white, red, yellow — drop-culture signal colors, unmissable at thumbnail size.
Black, gold and one deep red — the prestige cosmetics counter: all restraint and a single lipstick.
Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.
Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.
Burgundy and plum on near-black with a brass accent — theatre, wine, and anything that wants to feel after-dark.
Orange, magenta and yellow neon on aubergine-black — the street-sign palette for food, nightlife and events.
One neon on white with black type — lime-and-black is the neon that works in daylight; the orange is a second gear.
Five greys, no hue — the true monochrome; the accent is a lighter grey, so hierarchy comes from weight and size alone.
Greys on near-black — the monochrome dark mode; keep everything a tint of white and the layout does the talking.
Linear Text reads as cool, muted, dark. 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 #0d0e10 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/0d0e10-9ca5c4-df694e-211f2d-e9f0f1?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