Color
#bc8595
#bc8595rgb(188, 133, 149)hsl(343, 29%, 63%)oklch(0.676 0.071 0.1)Colors that go with #bc8595
Charcoal, Cadet Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #bc8595: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #bc8595 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #bc8595 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Darkroom put Champagne beside #bc8595, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bc8595: 4 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #bc8595: 4 real palettes, including Spline's brand system and Studio Grey, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Open House and Railway's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #bc8595, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #bc8595
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bc8595 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.03:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.93:1 | 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 #bc8595 as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#bc8595 reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #bc8595 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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