Color

#971812

#971812
hex#971812
rgbrgb(151, 24, 18)
hslhsl(3, 79%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.437 0.162 28.8)
Closest name: Bleeding Crimson (#9b1414)Relative luminance 0.0728

Colors that go with #971812

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#129097

#97124e · #975b12

#129718 · #181297

Split-complementary

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#12975b · #124e97

#4e9712 · #129097 · #5b1297

Contrast

#971812 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.55:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.46:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e4251b as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #ed6f68 as the text (7.07:1)
  • 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 #971812 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

#971812 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #971812
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 #971812 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/971812-c4a39c-62cb9d-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md