Color

#8a2853

#8a2853
hex#8a2853
rgbrgb(138, 40, 83)
hslhsl(334, 55%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.441 0.138 357.5)
Closest name: Berry (#990f4b)Relative luminance 0.0755

Colors that go with #8a2853

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 #8a2853

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#288a60

#8a2884 · #8a2f28

#538a28 · #28538a

Split-complementary

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#288a2f · #28848a

#848a28 · #288a60 · #2f288a

Contrast

#8a2853 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.37:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c8417c as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #d879a2 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bfbfbf (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a2853 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

#8a2853 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a2853
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 #8a2853 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a2853-c49ca9-62cb6b-2d1f1f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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