Color

#8c1917

#8c1917
hex#8c1917
rgbrgb(140, 25, 23)
hslhsl(1, 72%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.417 0.15 27.5)
Closest name: Brick Red (#8f1402)Relative luminance 0.0633

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#178a8c

#8c1750 · #8c5417

#178c19 · #19178c

Split-complementary

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#178c54 · #17508c

#508c17 · #178a8c · #54178c

Contrast

#8c1917 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.27:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.27:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #dd2f2c as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #e87573 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b5b5b5 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e0e0e0 (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 #8c1917 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

#8c1917 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8c1917
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 #8c1917 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8c1917-c4a19c-62cb9a-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md