Color

#b5451c

#b5451c
hex#b5451c
rgbrgb(181, 69, 28)
hslhsl(16, 73%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.538 0.155 38.8)
Closest name: Rust (#b7410e)Relative luminance 0.1416

Colors that go with #b5451c

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 #b5451c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1c8cb5

#b51c40 · #b5911c

#1cb545 · #451cb5

Split-complementary

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#1cb591 · #1c40b5

#40b51c · #1c8cb5 · #911cb5

Contrast

#b5451c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.48:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #963917 as the text (7.26:1)
Aaon black
3.83:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #cb4d20 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #e47a53 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (4.6:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b5451c as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#b5451c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b5451c
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 #b5451c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b5451c-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md