Color

#cd7565

#cd7565
hex#cd7565
rgbrgb(205, 117, 101)
hslhsl(9, 51%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.656 0.114 31.3)
Closest name: Bite My Tongue (#d47d72)Relative luminance 0.2664

Colors that go with #cd7565

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Amber 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 #cd7565

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#65bdcd

#cd6589 · #cda965

#65cd75 · #7565cd

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#65cda9 · #6589cd

#89cd65 · #65bdcd · #a965cd

Contrast

#cd7565 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.32:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #c1523e as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #923e2f as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.33:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #d28274 as the text (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #cd7565 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

#cd7565 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cd7565
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 #cd7565 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cd7565-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md