Color
#ca4e59
#ca4e59rgb(202, 78, 89)hsl(355, 54%, 55%)oklch(0.592 0.158 18.1)Colors that go with #ca4e59
Amber, Cadet Blue and Charcoal 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 #ca4e59 in 4 real palettes, including Diner and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ca4e59: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #ca4e59 in 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Farmers Market, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #ca4e59 in 5 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #ca4e59 in 4 real palettes, including Replit's brand system and Notion's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold is paired with #ca4e59 in 5 real palettes, including Tequila Sunrise and Tabloid, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
complementaryDark Cyan sits directly opposite #ca4e59 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 #ca4e59
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ca4e59 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.43:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.75:1 | 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 #ca4e59 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
#ca4e59 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 #ca4e59 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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