Magazine Ochre
Open in tool →Ochre and walnut on unbleached stock, with teal as the counterpoint — a features-section palette with some heat in it.
Color
#b6572b
#b6572b
hex
#b6572brgb
rgb(182, 87, 43)hsl
hsl(19, 62%, 44%)oklch
oklch(0.567 0.136 43.5)Closest name: Bloodhound (#bb5511)Relative luminance 0.1694
Colors that go with #b6572b
Crimson, 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.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #b6572b's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #b6572b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #b6572b 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 #b6572b in 4 real palettes, including Trailhead and Ember, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #b6572b: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #b6572b.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b6572b in 6 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b6572b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #b6572b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b6572b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.79:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.39:1 | 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 #b6572b 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
#b6572b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b6572b
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 #b6572b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b6572b-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?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