Color

#a22a3e

#a22a3e
hex#a22a3e
rgbrgb(162, 42, 62)
hslhsl(350, 59%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.479 0.155 16.1)
Closest name: brown (#a52a2a)Relative luminance 0.0969

Colors that go with #a22a3e

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.

Real palettes that use #a22a3e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2aa28e

#a22a7a · #a2522a

#3ea22a · #2a3ea2

Split-complementary

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#2aa252 · #2a7aa2

#7aa22a · #2aa28e · #522aa2

Contrast

#a22a3e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.15:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.94:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #cf445c as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #dc798a as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a22a3e 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

#a22a3e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a22a3e
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 #a22a3e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a22a3e-c49c9e-62cb87-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md