Color

#a1081f

#a1081f
hex#a1081f
rgbrgb(161, 8, 31)
hslhsl(351, 91%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.45 0.178 23.5)
Closest name: Bleeding Crimson (#9b1414)Relative luminance 0.0785

Colors that go with #a1081f

Royal Blue, Teal and Champagne 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 #a1081f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#08a18a

#a1086b · #a13d08

#1fa108 · #081fa1

Split-complementary

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#08a13d · #086ba1

#6ba108 · #08a18a · #3d08a1

Contrast

#a1081f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.17:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.57:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ea0b2c as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #f86379 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (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 #a1081f 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

#a1081f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a1081f
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 #a1081f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a1081f-c49c9e-62cb89-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md