Color
#c45f81
#c45f81rgb(196, 95, 129)hsl(340, 46%, 57%)oklch(0.616 0.134 0.5)Colors that go with #c45f81
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Denim 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #c45f81 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 #c45f81: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #c45f81: 7 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #c45f81 in 6 real palettes, including Zed's brand system and Ubisoft's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #c45f81 in 15 real palettes, including Zed's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #c45f81: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c45f81 in 3 real palettes, including Snyk's brand system and Redfin's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Orange #ffa500
shipped3 real palettes, including Sunset Boulevard and Tequila Sunrise put Orange beside #c45f81, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #c45f81
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c45f81 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.96:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.3:1 | 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 #c45f81 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
#c45f81 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 #c45f81 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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