Color

#970c18

#970c18
hex#970c18
rgbrgb(151, 12, 24)
hslhsl(355, 85%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.431 0.168 25.4)
Closest name: Bleeding Crimson (#9b1414)Relative luminance 0.0691

Colors that go with #970c18

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 #970c18

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0c978b

#970c5d · #97460c

#18970c · #0c1897

Split-complementary

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#0c9746 · #0c5d97

#5d970c · #0c978b · #460c97

Contrast

#970c18 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.82:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.38:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e71324 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #f36874 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bababa (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (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 #970c18 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

#970c18 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #970c18
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 #970c18 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/970c18-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md