Clean Beauty
Open in tool →Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.
Color
#bc694e
#bc694e
hex
#bc694ergb
rgb(188, 105, 78)hsl
hsl(15, 45%, 52%)oklch
oklch(0.609 0.114 38.7)Closest name: Barbecue (#c26157)Relative luminance 0.2134
Colors that go with #bc694e
Charcoal, 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #bc694e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #bc694e 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 #bc694e in 5 real palettes, including Trailhead and Google's brand system, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Garnet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #bc694e, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #bc694e: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #bc694e, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #bc694e in 4 real palettes, including Redfin's brand system and Snyk's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #bc694e in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Magazine Ochre, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #bc694e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bc694e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.99:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.27:1 | 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 #bc694e 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
#bc694e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bc694e
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 #bc694e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bc694e-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-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