Color
#bd516e
#bd516ergb(189, 81, 110)hsl(344, 45%, 53%)oklch(0.581 0.141 5.8)Colors that go with #bd516e
Dark Olive Green, Sea Green and Slate Gray 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.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #bd516e in 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Farmers Market, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #bd516e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #bd516e in 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Noir Beauty, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #bd516e in 9 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Clean Beauty, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
complementaryDark Cyan sits directly opposite #bd516e 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 #bd516e in 3 real palettes, including Ember and Maple, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #bd516e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold is paired with #bd516e in 3 real palettes, including Tabloid and Tequila Sunrise, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #bd516e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bd516e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.6:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.57:1 | 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 #bd516e 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
#bd516e 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 #bd516e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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