Color

#8a0009

#8a0009
hex#8a0009
rgbrgb(138, 0, 9)
hslhsl(356, 100%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.398 0.162 27.3)
Closest name: darkred (#8b0000)Relative luminance 0.0542

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#008a81

#8a004e · #8a3c00

#098a00 · #00098a

Split-complementary

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#008a3c · #004e8a

#4e8a00 · #008a81 · #3c008a

Contrast

#8a0009 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.07:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.08:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #eb0010 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #ff616b as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a0009 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

#8a0009 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a0009
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #8a0009 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a0009-c49e9c-62cb91-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md