Color

#980140

#980140
hex#980140
rgbrgb(152, 1, 64)
hslhsl(335, 99%, 30%)
oklchoklch(0.436 0.174 7.4)
Closest name: Aristocratic Velvet (#980b4a)Relative luminance 0.0707

Colors that go with #980140

Teal, Crimson and Denim 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 #980140

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#019859

#98018c · #980d01

#409801 · #014098

Split-complementary

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#01980d · #018c98

#8c9801 · #019859 · #0d0198

Contrast

#980140 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.7:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.41:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e90162 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #fe589d as the text (7.1:1)
  • 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 #980140 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

#980140 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #980140
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 #980140 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/980140-c49ca8-62cb6d-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md