Color

#8a2453

#8a2453
hex#8a2453
rgbrgb(138, 36, 83)
hslhsl(332, 59%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.437 0.143 356.7)
Closest name: Aristocratic Velvet (#980b4a)Relative luminance 0.0729

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#248a5a

#8a2486 · #8a2724

#538a24 · #24538a

Split-complementary

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#248a27 · #24868a

#868a24 · #248a5a · #27248a

Contrast

#8a2453 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.54:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.46:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #cd3c80 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #db75a5 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a2453 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

#8a2453 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a2453
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 #8a2453 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a2453-c49caa-62cb67-2d1f20-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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