Color

#a13e17

#a13e17
hex#a13e17
rgbrgb(161, 62, 23)
hslhsl(17, 75%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.495 0.141 39.7)
Closest name: Brick (#a03623)Relative luminance 0.1108

Colors that go with #a13e17

Crimson, Teal and Amber 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 #a13e17

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#177aa1

#a11735 · #a18317

#17a13e · #3e17a1

Split-complementary

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#17a183 · #1735a1

#35a117 · #177aa1 · #8317a1

Contrast

#a13e17 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.53:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #983b16 as the text (7.07:1)
Aaon black
3.22:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #c94d1d as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #e6784c as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (4.62:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a13e17 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#a13e17 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a13e17
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 #a13e17 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a13e17-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md