Color

#c18281

#c18281
hex#c18281
rgbrgb(193, 130, 129)
hslhsl(1, 34%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.67 0.078 20.4)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2889

Colors that go with #c18281

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Burlywood 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 #c18281

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#81c0c1

#c181a0 · #c1a281

#81c182 · #8281c1

Split-complementary

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#81c1a2 · #81a0c1

#a0c181 · #81c0c1 · #a281c1

Contrast

#c18281 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.1:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #ae5c5b as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #894443 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.57:1)
Aaon black
6.78:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #c48887 as the text (7.22:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c18281 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

#c18281 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c18281
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 #c18281 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c18281-c4a19c-62cb9a-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md