Wellness
Open in tool →Sage and terracotta feel natural and calm — the anti-hospital palette for wellbeing brands.
Color
#c85d3c
#c85d3c
hex
#c85d3crgb
rgb(200, 93, 60)hsl
hsl(14, 56%, 51%)oklch
oklch(0.604 0.145 37.7)Closest name: Barbecue (#c26157)Relative luminance 0.2043
Colors that go with #c85d3c
Charcoal, Sea Green and Steel 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #c85d3c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #c85d3c — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #c85d3c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #c85d3c in 7 real palettes, including Trailhead and Google's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped9 real palettes, including Glossier's brand system and Doordash's brand system put Blue beside #c85d3c, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #c85d3c: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Bramble put Champagne beside #c85d3c.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #c85d3c: 4 real palettes, including Walgreens's brand system and NASA's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #c85d3c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c85d3c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.13:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.09:1 | pass | 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 #c85d3c 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
#c85d3c reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c85d3c
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 #c85d3c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c85d3c-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-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