Color

#ca4912

#ca4912
hex#ca4912
rgbrgb(202, 73, 18)
hslhsl(18, 84%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.577 0.174 39.5)
Closest name: Bolognese (#bb4400)Relative luminance 0.1737

Colors that go with #ca4912

Amber, Cadet Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #ca4912

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1292ca

#ca1236 · #caa512

#12ca49 · #4912ca

Split-complementary

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#12caa5 · #1236ca

#36ca12 · #1292ca · #a512ca

Contrast

#ca4912 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.69:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9b380d as the text (7.08:1)
Aaon black
4.47:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #ce4b12 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #ee703a as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (4.58:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ca4912 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

#ca4912 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ca4912
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #ca4912 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ca4912-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md