Color

#8a1528

#8a1528
hex#8a1528
rgbrgb(138, 21, 40)
hslhsl(350, 74%, 31%)
oklchoklch(0.412 0.15 19.2)
Closest name: Barbera (#8b031c)Relative luminance 0.0609

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#158a76

#8a1563 · #8a3c15

#288a15 · #15288a

Split-complementary

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#158a3c · #15638a

#638a15 · #158a76 · #3c158a

Contrast

#8a1528 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.47:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.22:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #df2a48 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #ea7185 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a1528 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

#8a1528 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a1528
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 #8a1528 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a1528-c49c9e-62cb87-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md