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Color
#cd8274
#cd8274
hex
#cd8274rgb
rgb(205, 130, 116)hsl
hsl(9, 47%, 63%)oklch
oklch(0.681 0.096 31.2)Closest name: Bite My Tongue (#d47d72)Relative luminance 0.3021
Colors that go with #cd8274
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #cd8274 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #cd8274: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside #cd8274, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #cd8274 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Kiln, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Darkroom put Champagne beside #cd8274, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cd8274 in 4 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #cd8274 in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #cd8274: 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #cd8274
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cd8274 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.98:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.04:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #cd8274 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#cd8274 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cd8274
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #cd8274 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cd8274-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md