Color
#bf5a5f
#bf5a5frgb(191, 90, 95)hsl(357, 44%, 55%)oklch(0.593 0.13 18.8)Colors that go with #bf5a5f
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #bf5a5f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #bf5a5f — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #bf5a5f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #bf5a5f in 6 real palettes, including Trailhead and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Tim Hortons's brand system put Blue beside #bf5a5f, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #bf5a5f: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Diner, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #bf5a5f.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #bf5a5f: 5 real palettes, including Pepsi's brand system and Walgreens's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #bf5a5f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bf5a5f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.34:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.84:1 | 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 #bf5a5f 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
#bf5a5f 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 #bf5a5f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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