Color
#ac4d52
#ac4d52rgb(172, 77, 82)hsl(357, 38%, 49%)oklch(0.543 0.125 19)Colors that go with #ac4d52
Sea Green, Steel Blue and Teal 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #ac4d52 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with #ac4d52 — 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 #ac4d52 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 #ac4d52 in 5 real palettes, including Ember and Maple, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #ac4d52, as the text colour against it.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ac4d52: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #ac4d52: 4 real palettes, including MLB's brand system and Behance's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ac4d52 in 8 real palettes, including Nintendo's brand system and Wendy's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ac4d52
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ac4d52 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.33:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.94:1 | 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 #ac4d52 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
#ac4d52 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 #ac4d52 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ac4d52-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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