Color

#8a1e36

#8a1e36
hex#8a1e36
rgbrgb(138, 30, 54)
hslhsl(347, 64%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.422 0.143 13.5)
Closest name: Beet Red (#7e203f)Relative luminance 0.066

Colors that go with #8a1e36

Denim, Teal and Crimson 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

Open in tool →

#1e8a73

#8a1e6b · #8a3d1e

#368a1e · #1e368a

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#1e8a3d · #1e6b8a

#6b8a1e · #1e8a73 · #3d1e8a

Contrast

#8a1e36 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.05:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.32:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d43a5c as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #e1758c as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a1e36 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

#8a1e36 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a1e36
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 #8a1e36 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a1e36-c49ca0-62cb82-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md