Color

#990b20

#990b20
hex#990b20
rgbrgb(153, 11, 32)
hslhsl(351, 87%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.435 0.17 22.8)
Closest name: Bleeding Crimson (#9b1414)Relative luminance 0.0712

Colors that go with #990b20

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 #990b20

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0b9983

#990b67 · #993c0b

#20990b · #0b2099

Split-complementary

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#0b993c · #0b6799

#67990b · #0b9983 · #3c0b99

Contrast

#990b20 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.67:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ea1031 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #f4667c as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #990b20 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

#990b20 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #990b20
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 #990b20 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/990b20-c49c9e-62cb89-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md