Color

#b2452a

#b2452a
hex#b2452a
rgbrgb(178, 69, 42)
hslhsl(12, 62%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.534 0.148 35.1)
Closest name: Rust (#b7410e)Relative luminance 0.1389

Colors that go with #b2452a

Royal Blue, Sea Green and Steel Blue 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 #b2452a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2a96b2

#b22a52 · #b2892a

#2ab245 · #452ab2

Split-complementary

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#2ab289 · #2a52b2

#52b22a · #2a96b2 · #892ab2

Contrast

#b2452a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.56:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #953a23 as the text (7.22:1)
Aaon black
3.78:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #c64d2f as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #db7e66 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (4.54:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b2452a 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

#b2452a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b2452a
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 #b2452a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b2452a-c4a99c-62cbad-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md