Color

#bc8586

#bc8586
hex#bc8586
rgbrgb(188, 133, 134)
hslhsl(359, 29%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.671 0.068 17.8)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2919

Colors that go with #bc8586

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Burlywood 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 #bc8586

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#85bcbb

#bc85a2 · #bca085

#86bc85 · #8586bc

Split-complementary

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#85bca0 · #85a2bc

#a2bc85 · #85bcbb · #a085bc

Contrast

#bc8586 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.07:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a86162 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #804748 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.61:1)
Aaon black
6.84:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #be8989 as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bc8586 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

#bc8586 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bc8586
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 #bc8586 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bc8586-c4a09c-62cb96-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md