Color
#bb3561
#bb3561rgb(187, 53, 97)hsl(340, 56%, 47%)oklch(0.541 0.172 5.2)Colors that go with #bb3561
Teal, Dark Olive Green and Denim 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #bb3561 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #bb3561 in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bb3561: 9 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Ulta Beauty's brand system, as the lead colour.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold shows up next to #bb3561 in 4 real palettes, including Tabloid and Lay's's brand system, as the accent.
Orange #ffa500
shipped4 real palettes, including Sunset Boulevard and Rippling's brand system put Orange beside #bb3561, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #bb3561 in 9 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Coinbase's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #bb3561: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #bb3561: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #bb3561
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bb3561 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.53:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.79:1 | 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 #bb3561 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
#bb3561 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 #bb3561 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/bb3561-c49ca5-62cb75-2d211f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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