Color
#a54550
#a54550rgb(165, 69, 80)hsl(353, 41%, 46%)oklch(0.52 0.127 15.7)Colors that go with #a54550
Teal, Champagne and Crimson 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #a54550 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #a54550 in 5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and BrandSweets's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a54550 in 6 real palettes, including Nintendo's brand system and State Farm's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #a54550 in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and BrandSweets's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #a54550 in 8 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Campbell's's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a54550 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Trailhead, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #a54550 in 7 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Coinbase's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a54550: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #a54550
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a54550 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.89:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.57:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a54550 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
#a54550 reads as warm. 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 #a54550 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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