Color

#97111c

#97111c
hex#97111c
rgbrgb(151, 17, 28)
hslhsl(355, 80%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.434 0.165 24.7)
Closest name: Bleeding Crimson (#9b1414)Relative luminance 0.0706

Colors that go with #97111c

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 #97111c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#11978c

#97115f · #974911

#1c9711 · #111c97

Split-complementary

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#119749 · #115f97

#5f9711 · #11978c · #491197

Contrast

#97111c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.7:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.41:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e6192a as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #ef6c77 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #97111c 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

#97111c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #97111c
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 #97111c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/97111c-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md