Color

#8a244b

#8a244b
hex#8a244b
rgbrgb(138, 36, 75)
hslhsl(337, 59%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.434 0.14 1.8)
Closest name: Beet Red (#7e203f)Relative luminance 0.0717

Colors that go with #8a244b

Teal, Taupe and Champagne 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 #8a244b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#248a63

#8a247e · #8a2f24

#4b8a24 · #244b8a

Split-complementary

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#248a2f · #247e8a

#7e8a24 · #248a63 · #2f248a

Contrast

#8a244b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.63:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.43:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ce4077 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #db759c as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (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 #8a244b 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

#8a244b reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a244b
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 #8a244b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a244b-c49ca7-62cb70-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md