Color

#a45155

#a45155
hex#a45155
rgbrgb(164, 81, 85)
hslhsl(357, 34%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.538 0.11 18.5)
Closest name: Barbarossa (#a84734)Relative luminance 0.1443

Colors that go with #a45155

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 #a45155

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#51a4a0

#a4517f · #a47651

#55a451 · #5155a4

Split-complementary

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#51a476 · #517fa4

#7fa451 · #51a4a0 · #7651a4

Contrast

#a45155 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.4:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #894347 as the text (7.1:1)
Aaon black
3.89:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b05e62 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #c4878a as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (4.53:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a45155 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

#a45155 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a45155
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 #a45155 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a45155-c49f9c-62cb93-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md