Color

#a04b51

#a04b51
hex#a04b51
rgbrgb(160, 75, 81)
hslhsl(356, 36%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.522 0.113 17.5)
Closest name: Barbarossa (#a84734)Relative luminance 0.131

Colors that go with #a04b51

Sea Green, Teal 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.

Real palettes that use #a04b51

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4ba09a

#a04b7b · #a0704b

#51a04b · #4b51a0

Split-complementary

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#4ba070 · #4b7ba0

#7ba04b · #4ba09a · #704ba0

Contrast

#a04b51 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.8:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8b4146 as the text (7.14:1)
Aaon black
3.62:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b25c62 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #c6868a as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (4.52:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a04b51 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

#a04b51 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a04b51
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a04b51 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a04b51-c49e9c-62cb91-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md