Color

#8e2601

#8e2601
hex#8e2601
rgbrgb(142, 38, 1)
hslhsl(16, 99%, 28%)
oklchoklch(0.431 0.145 36.5)
Closest name: Brick Red (#8f1402)Relative luminance 0.0714

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#01688e

#8e0122 · #8e6d01

#018e26 · #26018e

Split-complementary

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#018e6d · #01228e

#228e01 · #01688e · #6d018e

Contrast

#8e2601 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.65:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.43:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #da3b01 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #fe662f as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8e2601 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

#8e2601 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8e2601
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 #8e2601 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8e2601-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md