Color

#aa5057

#aa5057
hex#aa5057
rgbrgb(170, 80, 87)
hslhsl(355, 36%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.546 0.118 17)
Closest name: Barbarossa (#a84734)Relative luminance 0.1497

Colors that go with #aa5057

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 #aa5057

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#50aaa2

#aa5084 · #aa7550

#57aa50 · #5057aa

Split-complementary

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#50aa75 · #5084aa

#84aa50 · #50aaa2 · #7550aa

Contrast

#aa5057 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.26:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8b4147 as the text (7.13:1)
Aaon black
3.99:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b25c63 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #c6868b as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (4.61:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa5057 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

#aa5057 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa5057
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 #aa5057 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa5057-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md