Color
#bd5656
#bd5656rgb(189, 86, 86)hsl(0, 44%, 54%)oklch(0.582 0.133 22.1)Colors that go with #bd5656
Cadet Blue, Dark Olive Green and Hunter Green 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #bd5656 in 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Diner, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #bd5656 in 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Magazine Ochre, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #bd5656 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Trailhead, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #bd5656 in 4 real palettes, including Homestead and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #bd5656 in 8 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Noir Beauty, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
complementaryDark Cyan sits directly opposite #bd5656 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #bd5656: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #bd5656: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #bd5656
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bd5656 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.54:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.63:1 | 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 #bd5656 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
#bd5656 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 #bd5656 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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