Color

#bc8588

#bc8588
hex#bc8588
rgbrgb(188, 133, 136)
hslhsl(357, 29%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.672 0.068 15.4)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2924

Colors that go with #bc8588

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 #bc8588

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#85bcb9

#bc85a3 · #bc9e85

#88bc85 · #8588bc

Split-complementary

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#85bc9e · #85a3bc

#a3bc85 · #85bcb9 · #9e85bc

Contrast

#bc8588 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.07:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a86165 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #804749 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.62:1)
Aaon black
6.85:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #be898b as the text (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bc8588 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

#bc8588 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bc8588
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 #bc8588 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bc8588-c49f9c-62cb93-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md