Wellness
Open in tool →Sage and terracotta feel natural and calm — the anti-hospital palette for wellbeing brands.
Color
#c16149
#c16149
hex
#c16149rgb
rgb(193, 97, 73)hsl
hsl(12, 49%, 52%)oklch
oklch(0.602 0.129 35.1)Closest name: Barbecue (#c26157)Relative luminance 0.2037
Colors that go with #c16149
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 #c16149: 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 #c16149 — 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 #c16149: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #c16149 in 7 real palettes, including Trailhead and Google's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped8 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system put Blue beside #c16149, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #c16149 in 4 real palettes, including Klarna US's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #c16149: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #c16149, as that palette's text colour.
Real palettes that use #c16149
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c16149 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.14:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.07:1 | 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 #c16149 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
#c16149 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c16149
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #c16149 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c16149-c4a99c-62cbad-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md