Color

#8a0500

#8a0500
hex#8a0500
rgbrgb(138, 5, 0)
hslhsl(2, 100%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.4 0.161 29.8)
Closest name: darkred (#8b0000)Relative luminance 0.0551

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#00858a

#8a0040 · #8a4900

#008a05 · #05008a

Split-complementary

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#008a49 · #00408a

#408a00 · #00858a · #49008a

Contrast

#8a0500 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.99:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.1:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #eb0800 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #ff615c as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a0500 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

#8a0500 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a0500
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 #8a0500 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a0500-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md