Color
#850a4e
#850a4ergb(133, 10, 78)hsl(327, 86%, 28%)oklch(0.407 0.16 355)Colors that go with #850a4e
Teal, Forest Green and Charcoal 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #850a4e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Forest Green #228b22
split-complementForest Green is a split-complement of #850a4e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #850a4e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sandy Brown #f4a460
shippedSandy Brown is paired with #850a4e in two real palettes: Golden Hour and Dusk Gradient, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #850a4e in two real palettes: Blush and Cider, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Olive Green #808000
triadicOlive Green completes a triad with #850a4e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicSteel Blue completes a triad with #850a4e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousCrimson is #850a4e's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Real palettes that use #850a4e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #850a4e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.76:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.15:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #850a4e 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
#850a4e reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #850a4e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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