Color

#cd5942

#cd5942
hex#cd5942
rgbrgb(205, 89, 66)
hslhsl(10, 58%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.607 0.153 32.9)
Closest name: Barbecue (#c26157)Relative luminance 0.2052

Colors that go with #cd5942

Charcoal, Amber and Cadet Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#42b5cd

#cd4270 · #cd9e42

#42cd59 · #5942cd

Split-complementary

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#42cd9e · #4270cd

#70cd42 · #42b5cd · #9e42cd

Contrast

#cd5942 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.11:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #c94e36 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #953a28 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #121212 (4.55:1)
Aaon black
5.1:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #d8806e as the text (7.23:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #cd5942 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

#cd5942 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cd5942
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 #cd5942 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cd5942-c4a79c-62cbaa-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md