Sunset Boulevard
Open in tool →Coral, apricot and magenta on aubergine — the gradient sunset every event brand wants, decomposed into flat tokens.
Color
#c45481
#c45481
hex
#c45481rgb
rgb(196, 84, 129)hsl
hsl(336, 49%, 55%)oklch
oklch(0.601 0.15 357.5)Closest name: Flirty Rose (#d65e93)Relative luminance 0.1966
Colors that go with #c45481
Amber, Denim and Royal 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.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #c45481 in 4 real palettes, including Google's brand system and Maple, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #c45481: 6 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Ulta Beauty's brand system, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #c45481 in 6 real palettes, including Ubisoft's brand system and Zed's brand system, as the accent.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #c45481: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #c45481 in 12 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Zed's brand system, as the lead colour.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped4 real palettes, including Sunset Boulevard and Airbnb's brand system put Tomato beside #c45481, as the lead colour.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
complementaryDark Cyan sits directly opposite #c45481 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #c45481: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #c45481
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c45481 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.26:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.93:1 | 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 #c45481 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
#c45481 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c45481
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 #c45481 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c45481-c49ca7-62cb6e-2d201f-f1e9f0?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