Color

#a4282e

#a4282e
hex#a4282e
rgbrgb(164, 40, 46)
hslhsl(357, 61%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.478 0.16 23.3)
Closest name: brown (#a52a2a)Relative luminance 0.0961

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#28a49e

#a4286c · #a46028

#2ea428 · #282ea4

Split-complementary

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#28a460 · #286ca4

#6ca428 · #28a49e · #6028a4

Contrast

#a4282e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.19:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.92:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d14249 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #de787d as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a4282e 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

#a4282e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a4282e
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 #a4282e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a4282e-c49f9c-62cb93-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md