Color

#8d2a2c

#8d2a2c
hex#8d2a2c
rgbrgb(141, 42, 44)
hslhsl(359, 54%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.438 0.134 23.5)
Closest name: Blood Oath (#85323c)Relative luminance 0.075

Colors that go with #8d2a2c

Teal, Champagne and Crimson 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 #8d2a2c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2a8d8c

#8d2a5d · #8d5a2a

#2c8d2a · #2a2c8d

Split-complementary

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#2a8d5a · #2a5d8d

#5d8d2a · #2a8d8c · #5a2a8d

Contrast

#8d2a2c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.4:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c94a4c as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #d87d7f as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bfbfbf (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (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 #8d2a2c 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

#8d2a2c reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d2a2c
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 #8d2a2c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d2a2c-c4a09c-62cb96-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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