Color

#cd6042

#cd6042
hex#cd6042
rgbrgb(205, 96, 66)
hslhsl(13, 58%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.617 0.146 36.3)
Closest name: Barbecue (#c26157)Relative luminance 0.2174

Colors that go with #cd6042

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Sea 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 #cd6042

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#42afcd

#cd4269 · #cda542

#42cd60 · #6042cd

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#42cda5 · #4269cd

#69cd42 · #42afcd · #a542cd

Contrast

#cd6042 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.93:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #c15233 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #913e27 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.57:1)
Aaon black
5.35:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #d67e66 as the text (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #cd6042 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#cd6042 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cd6042
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 #cd6042 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cd6042-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md