Gallery
Open in tool →Near-monochrome with one burnt-orange highlight — an art director's default because it never competes with the work.
Color
#c54007
#c54007
hex
#c54007rgb
rgb(197, 64, 7)hsl
hsl(18, 93%, 40%)oklch
oklch(0.557 0.178 38.2)Closest name: Bolognese (#bb4400)Relative luminance 0.1555
Colors that go with #c54007
Teal, Amber and Dark Olive Green 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #c54007 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #c54007 in 5 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Magazine Ochre, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #c54007 in 5 real palettes, including Netflix's brand system and Chase's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold is paired with #c54007 in 4 real palettes, including Garnet and Tequila Sunrise, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #c54007 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #c54007 in 6 real palettes, including Gallery and Noir Beauty, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #c54007: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #c54007
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c54007 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.11:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.11:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c54007 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
Trailhead
Open in tool →Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.
Garnet
Open in tool →Garnet, carnelian and citrine on a wine-black — the warm jewel set for spirits, theatre and jewellery itself.
Fonts for this mood
#c54007 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c54007
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 #c54007 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c54007-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-f1e9eb?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