Color

#a45159

#a45159
hex#a45159
rgbrgb(164, 81, 89)
hslhsl(354, 34%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.539 0.11 15.4)
Closest name: Barbarossa (#a84734)Relative luminance 0.145

Colors that go with #a45159

Sea Green, Teal and Champagne 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 #a45159

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#51a49c

#a45183 · #a47251

#59a451 · #5159a4

Split-complementary

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#51a472 · #5183a4

#83a451 · #51a49c · #7251a4

Contrast

#a45159 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.38:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #89434a as the text (7.08:1)
Aaon black
3.9:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b05e67 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #c4878d as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (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 #a45159 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

#a45159 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a45159
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 #a45159 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a45159-c49d9c-62cb8e-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md