Color

#8c2222

#8c2222
hex#8c2222
rgbrgb(140, 34, 34)
hslhsl(0, 61%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.426 0.142 25.6)
Closest name: Brick Red (#8f1402)Relative luminance 0.0683

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#228c8c

#8c2257 · #8c5722

#228c22 · #22228c

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#228c57 · #22578c

#578c22 · #228c8c · #57228c

Contrast

#8c2222 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.87:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.37:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d14242 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #de7878 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bababa (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8c2222 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

#8c2222 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8c2222
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 #8c2222 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8c2222-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md