Color

#bd6656

#bd6656
hex#bd6656
rgbrgb(189, 102, 86)
hslhsl(9, 44%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.607 0.115 31.6)
Closest name: Barbecue (#c26157)Relative luminance 0.2099

Colors that go with #bd6656

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Sea 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.

Real palettes that use #bd6656

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#56aebd

#bd567a · #bd9956

#56bd66 · #6656bd

Split-complementary

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#56bd99 · #567abd

#7abd56 · #56aebd · #9956bd

Contrast

#bd6656 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.04:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b85847 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #8c4336 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
5.2:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ca8477 as the text (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bd6656 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

#bd6656 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bd6656
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 #bd6656 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bd6656-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md