Color
#ca4e21
#ca4e21rgb(202, 78, 33)hsl(16, 72%, 46%)oklch(0.584 0.168 38.7)Colors that go with #ca4e21
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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #ca4e21 in 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Diner, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #ca4e21 in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Magazine Ochre, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold is paired with #ca4e21 in 6 real palettes, including Garnet and Tequila Sunrise, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #ca4e21 in 4 real palettes, including Trailhead and Desert Road, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #ca4e21 in 4 real palettes, including Homestead and Riverbed, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ca4e21: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
complementaryDark Cyan sits directly opposite #ca4e21 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #ca4e21
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ca4e21 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.54:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.62:1 | 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 #ca4e21 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
#ca4e21 reads as warm, vivid, playful. 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 #ca4e21 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ca4e21-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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