Color

#cd452d

#cd452d
hex#cd452d
rgbrgb(205, 69, 45)
hslhsl(9, 64%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.579 0.176 32.3)
Closest name: Bento Box (#cc363c)Relative luminance 0.1742

Colors that go with #cd452d

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 #cd452d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#2db5cd

#cd2d65 · #cd952d

#2dcd45 · #452dcd

Split-complementary

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#2dcd95 · #2d65cd

#65cd2d · #2db5cd · #952dcd

Contrast

#cd452d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.68:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9b3422 as the text (7.22:1)
Aaon black
4.48:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #d1462e as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #de7a68 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (4.56:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #cd452d 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

#cd452d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cd452d
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 #cd452d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cd452d-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md