Color

#c38274

#c38274
hex#c38274
rgbrgb(195, 130, 116)
hslhsl(11, 40%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.669 0.084 32.7)
Closest name: Bite My Tongue (#d47d72)Relative luminance 0.2883

Colors that go with #c38274

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and 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 #c38274

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#74b5c3

#c3748d · #c3aa74

#74c382 · #8274c3

Split-complementary

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#74c3aa · #748dc3

#8dc374 · #74b5c3 · #aa74c3

Contrast

#c38274 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.1:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b35f4d as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #844639 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.77:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #c58677 as the text (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c38274 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

#c38274 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c38274
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 #c38274 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c38274-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md