Color
#b8565e
#b8565ergb(184, 86, 94)hsl(355, 41%, 53%)oklch(0.577 0.127 16.9)Colors that go with #b8565e
Sea Green, Steel Blue and Amber 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 #b8565e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #b8565e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #b8565e in 5 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #b8565e: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Diner, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #b8565e, as the text colour against it.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b8565e: 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 #b8565e: 4 real palettes, including MLB's brand system and Walgreens's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b8565e in 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Magazine Ochre, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #b8565e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b8565e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.63:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.53:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b8565e 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
#b8565e 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 #b8565e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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