Sunset Boulevard
Open in tool →Coral, apricot and magenta on aubergine — the gradient sunset every event brand wants, decomposed into flat tokens.
Color
#ca498c
#ca498c
hex
#ca498crgb
rgb(202, 73, 140)hsl
hsl(329, 55%, 54%)oklch
oklch(0.6 0.177 351.6)Closest name: Beetroot Purple (#d33376)Relative luminance 0.1922
Colors that go with #ca498c
Dark Cyan, Charcoal and Gold 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.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
complementaryDark Cyan sits directly opposite #ca498c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ca498c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold is paired with #ca498c in 3 real palettes, including Tabloid and Tequila Sunrise, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Tomato #ff6347
shippedTomato is paired with #ca498c in 3 real palettes, including Sunset Boulevard and Night Market, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with #ca498c — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
split-complementOlive Drab is a split-complement of #ca498c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #ca498c in two real palettes: Klarna US's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange #ffa500
shippedOrange is paired with #ca498c in two real palettes: Sunset Boulevard and Tequila Sunrise, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #ca498c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ca498c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.34:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.84:1 | 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 #ca498c 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
#ca498c reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ca498c
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 #ca498c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ca498c-c49cac-62cb62-2d1f21-f1e9f1?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