Color

#bd5f42

#bd5f42
hex#bd5f42
rgbrgb(189, 95, 66)
hslhsl(14, 48%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.592 0.129 37.8)
Closest name: Boho Copper (#b96033)Relative luminance 0.194

Colors that go with #bd5f42

Charcoal, Sea Green and Steel Blue 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 #bd5f42

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#42a0bd

#bd4263 · #bd9c42

#42bd5f · #5f42bd

Split-complementary

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#42bd9c · #4263bd

#63bd42 · #42a0bd · #9c42bd

Contrast

#bd5f42 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.3:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b55b40 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #884430 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (4.52:1)
Aaon black
4.88:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #cd8570 as the text (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bd5f42 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#bd5f42 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bd5f42
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 #bd5f42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bd5f42-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md