Color
#aa4b4f
#aa4b4frgb(170, 75, 79)hsl(357, 39%, 48%)oklch(0.536 0.125 19.7)Colors that go with #aa4b4f
Steel Blue, 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.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with #aa4b4f — 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 #aa4b4f 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 #aa4b4f in 4 real palettes, including Ember and Maple, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #aa4b4f, as the text colour against it.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #aa4b4f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #aa4b4f in 9 real palettes, including Nintendo's brand system and Wendy's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #aa4b4f in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and BrandSweets's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #aa4b4f: 12 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Campbell's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #aa4b4f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aa4b4f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.49:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.83:1 | 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 #aa4b4f 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
#aa4b4f 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 #aa4b4f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/aa4b4f-c49f9c-62cb93-2d251f-f1e9ed?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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