Color

#a01508

#a01508
hex#a01508
rgbrgb(160, 21, 8)
hslhsl(5, 90%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.452 0.173 30.2)
Closest name: Bleeding Crimson (#9b1414)Relative luminance 0.0803

Colors that go with #a01508

Teal, Champagne and Dark Olive Green 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

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#0893a0

#a00848 · #a06108

#08a015 · #1508a0

Split-complementary

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#08a061 · #0848a0

#48a008 · #0893a0 · #6108a0

Contrast

#a01508 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.06:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.61:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e91f0c as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #f6675a as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (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 #a01508 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

#a01508 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a01508
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 #a01508 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a01508-c4a49c-62cba1-2d261f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md