Color

#971721

#971721
hex#971721
rgbrgb(151, 23, 33)
hslhsl(355, 74%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.438 0.161 23.9)
Closest name: Bleeding Crimson (#9b1414)Relative luminance 0.073

Colors that go with #971721

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 #971721

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#17978c

#971761 · #974c17

#219717 · #172197

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#17974c · #176197

#619717 · #17978c · #4c1797

Contrast

#971721 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.54:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.46:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #df2a39 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #ea717b as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #971721 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

#971721 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #971721
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 #971721 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/971721-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md