Color
#550401
#550401rgb(85, 4, 1)hsl(2, 98%, 17%)oklch(0.286 0.112 30)Colors that go with #550401
Royal Blue, Sienna and Teal 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #550401 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is #550401's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #550401 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside #550401, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #550401, as the surface under it.
Chocolate #d2691e
shippedChocolate shows up next to #550401 in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Homestead, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #550401: 9 real palettes, including Chipotle's brand system and Bakery, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #550401: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #550401
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #550401 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.96:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.4:1 | 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 #550401 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#550401 reads as warm, vivid, 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 #550401 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/550401-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?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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