Color

#8d280c

#8d280c
hex#8d280c
rgbrgb(141, 40, 12)
hslhsl(13, 84%, 30%)
oklchoklch(0.432 0.141 35.2)
Closest name: Brick Red (#8f1402)Relative luminance 0.0721

Colors that go with #8d280c

Crimson, Teal 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 #8d280c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#0c718d

#8d0c31 · #8d680c

#0c8d28 · #280c8d

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#0c8d68 · #0c318d

#318d0c · #0c718d · #680c8d

Contrast

#8d280c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.6:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d83d13 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #ef704d as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (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 #8d280c 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

#8d280c reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d280c
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 #8d280c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d280c-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md