Color

#8d2901

#8d2901
hex#8d2901
rgbrgb(141, 41, 1)
hslhsl(17, 99%, 28%)
oklchoklch(0.433 0.142 37.8)
Closest name: Brick Red (#8f1402)Relative luminance 0.0725

Colors that go with #8d2901

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 #8d2901

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#01668e

#8e011f · #8e6f01

#018e29 · #29018e

Split-complementary

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#018e6f · #011f8e

#1f8e01 · #01668e · #6f018e

Contrast

#8d2901 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.57:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.45:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #da3f01 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #fe662a as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d2901 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

#8d2901 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d2901
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 #8d2901 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d2901-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md