Fireside
Open in tool →Cranberry, pine and brass on a charcoal night — the holiday palette without the clichés, because the surface is cold.
Color
#b04041
#b04041
hex
#b04041rgb
rgb(176, 64, 65)hsl
hsl(359, 47%, 47%)oklch
oklch(0.528 0.147 23.1)Closest name: Barbarossa (#a84734)Relative luminance 0.1328
Colors that go with #b04041
Royal Blue, Sea Green 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #b04041 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #b04041 — 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 #b04041 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 #b04041 in 4 real palettes, including Ember and Maple, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #b04041, as the text colour against it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b04041 in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and BrandSweets's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b04041: 10 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and Chase's brand system, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b04041: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #b04041
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b04041 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.74:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.66:1 | 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 #b04041 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#b04041 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b04041
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #b04041 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b04041-c4a09c-62cb96-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md