Color

#a2252f

#a2252f
hex#a2252f
rgbrgb(162, 37, 47)
hslhsl(355, 63%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.471 0.16 22)
Closest name: brown (#a52a2a)Relative luminance 0.0921

Colors that go with #a2252f

Royal Blue, 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#25a298

#a2256e · #a25925

#2fa225 · #252fa2

Split-complementary

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#25a259 · #256ea2

#6ea225 · #25a298 · #5925a2

Contrast

#a2252f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.39:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.84:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d33c48 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #e0767f as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fafafa (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a2252f 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

#a2252f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a2252f
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 #a2252f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a2252f-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md