Wellness
Open in tool →Sage and terracotta feel natural and calm — the anti-hospital palette for wellbeing brands.
Color
#c85e2d
#c85e2d
hex
#c85e2drgb
rgb(200, 94, 45)hsl
hsl(19, 63%, 48%)oklch
oklch(0.604 0.149 43.3)Closest name: Boho Copper (#b96033)Relative luminance 0.2047
Colors that go with #c85e2d
Charcoal, Crimson and Dodger 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 #c85e2d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #c85e2d's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
split-complementshippedDodger Blue is a split-complement of #c85e2d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #c85e2d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #c85e2d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped8 real palettes, including Glossier's brand system and Doordash's brand system put Blue beside #c85e2d, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #c85e2d: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #c85e2d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c85e2d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.12:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.09:1 | 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 #c85e2d 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
#c85e2d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c85e2d
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 #c85e2d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c85e2d-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-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