Color
#a5455d
#a5455drgb(165, 69, 93)hsl(345, 41%, 46%)oklch(0.524 0.128 7.1)Colors that go with #a5455d
Dark Olive 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.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
triadicshippedDark Olive Green completes a triad with #a5455d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #a5455d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #a5455d in 4 real palettes, including Ember and Maple, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #a5455d, as the text colour against it.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a5455d in 6 real palettes, including Nintendo's brand system and Wendy's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a5455d: 10 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Campbell's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #a5455d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a5455d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #a5455d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a5455d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.82:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.61:1 | 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 #a5455d 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
#a5455d 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 #a5455d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/a5455d-c49ca1-62cb7e-2d221f-f1e9ef?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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