Color

#a42828

#a42828
hex#a42828
rgbrgb(164, 40, 40)
hslhsl(0, 61%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.477 0.161 25.8)
Closest name: brown (#a52a2a)Relative luminance 0.0956

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#28a4a4

#a42866 · #a46628

#28a428 · #2828a4

Split-complementary

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#28a466 · #2866a4

#66a428 · #28a4a4 · #6628a4

Contrast

#a42828 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.21:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d14242 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #de7878 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a42828 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

#a42828 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a42828
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 #a42828 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a42828-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md