Color
#ca494d
#ca494drgb(202, 73, 77)hsl(358, 55%, 54%)oklch(0.583 0.164 22)Colors that go with #ca494d
Charcoal, Royal Blue and Sea 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ca494d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #ca494d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #ca494d — 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 #ca494d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ca494d in 7 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Trailhead, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped8 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Tim Hortons's brand system put Blue beside #ca494d, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #ca494d in 4 real palettes, including Gemstone and Twitch's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ca494d: 4 real palettes, including Diner and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ca494d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ca494d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.59:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.57:1 | 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 #ca494d 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
#ca494d 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 #ca494d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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