Color

#501017

#501017
hex#501017
rgbrgb(80, 16, 23)
hslhsl(353, 67%, 19%)
oklchoklch(0.289 0.094 19.5)
Closest name: Minotaur Hide (#4a120d)Relative luminance 0.0214

Colors that go with #501017

Sienna, Teal 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 #501017

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#105149

#511038 · #512910

#185110 · #101851

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#105129 · #103851

#385110 · #105149 · #291051

Contrast

#501017 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
14.71:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.43:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d7374a as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #e47783 as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #8f8f8f (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #501017 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

#501017 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #501017
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 #501017 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/501017-c49c9c-62cb8c-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md