Color

#97171d

#97171d
hex#97171d
rgbrgb(151, 23, 29)
hslhsl(357, 74%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.437 0.162 25.4)
Closest name: Bleeding Crimson (#9b1414)Relative luminance 0.0728

Colors that go with #97171d

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 #97171d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#179790

#97175d · #975017

#1d9717 · #171d97

Split-complementary

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#179750 · #175d97

#5d9717 · #179790 · #501797

Contrast

#97171d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.55:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.46:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #df2a33 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #ea7177 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #97171d 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

#97171d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #97171d
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 #97171d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/97171d-c49f9c-62cb93-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md