Color

#8a1e49

#8a1e49
hex#8a1e49
rgbrgb(138, 30, 73)
hslhsl(336, 64%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.428 0.146 1.9)
Closest name: Beet Red (#7e203f)Relative luminance 0.0681

Colors that go with #8a1e49

Teal, Crimson and Taupe 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.

Real palettes that use #8a1e49

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1e8a5f

#8a1e7f · #8a291e

#498a1e · #1e498a

Split-complementary

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#1e8a29 · #1e7f8a

#7f8a1e · #1e8a5f · #291e8a

Contrast

#8a1e49 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.89:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.36:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d33675 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #e0719d as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bababa (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a1e49 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

#8a1e49 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a1e49
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 #8a1e49 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a1e49-c49ca7-62cb6e-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md