Color

#a33e1f

#a33e1f
hex#a33e1f
rgbrgb(163, 62, 31)
hslhsl(14, 68%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.499 0.141 37.1)
Closest name: Brick (#a03623)Relative luminance 0.1133

Colors that go with #a33e1f

Crimson, Royal Blue and Teal 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 #a33e1f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1f84a3

#a31f42 · #a3801f

#1fa33e · #3e1fa3

Split-complementary

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#1fa380 · #1f42a3

#42a31f · #1f84a3 · #801fa3

Contrast

#a33e1f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.43:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #96391d as the text (7.24:1)
Aaon black
3.27:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #c94c26 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #e07b5c as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (4.56:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a33e1f 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

#a33e1f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a33e1f
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 #a33e1f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a33e1f-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md