Color

#851e2f

#851e2f
hex#851e2f
rgbrgb(133, 30, 47)
hslhsl(350, 63%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.411 0.137 16.8)
Closest name: Barbera (#8b031c)Relative luminance 0.0612

Colors that go with #851e2f

Teal, Crimson and Slate Gray 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1e8574

#851e63 · #85401e

#2f851e · #1e2f85

Split-complementary

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#1e8540 · #1e6385

#63851e · #1e8574 · #401e85

Contrast

#851e2f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.44:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.22:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d33c55 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #e07688 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (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 #851e2f 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

#851e2f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #851e2f
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 #851e2f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/851e2f-c49c9e-62cb87-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md