Color

#8d1640

#8d1640
hex#8d1640
rgbrgb(141, 22, 64)
hslhsl(339, 73%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.424 0.154 6.7)
Closest name: Aristocratic Velvet (#980b4a)Relative luminance 0.0661

Colors that go with #8d1640

Teal, Crimson and Denim 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 #8d1640

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#168d63

#8d167b · #8d2816

#408d16 · #16408d

Split-complementary

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#168d28 · #167b8d

#7b8d16 · #168d63 · #28168d

Contrast

#8d1640 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.05:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.32:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #dd2767 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #e86d98 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d1640 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

#8d1640 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d1640
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 #8d1640 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d1640-c49ca5-62cb74-2d211f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md