Color

#a23b16

#a23b16
hex#a23b16
rgbrgb(162, 59, 22)
hslhsl(16, 76%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.493 0.145 38.4)
Closest name: Brick (#a03623)Relative luminance 0.1087

Tints & shades

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Harmonies

Complementary

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#167ca2

#a21637 · #a28116

#16a23b · #3b16a2

Split-complementary

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#16a281 · #1637a2

#37a216 · #167ca2 · #8116a2

Contrast

#a23b16 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.62:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #993815 as the text (7.16:1)
Aaon black
3.17:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #ca4a1c as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #e7754b as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d6d6d6 (4.55:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a23b16 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

#a23b16 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a23b16
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a23b16 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a23b16-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md