Color

#a42d2d

#a42d2d
hex#a42d2d
rgbrgb(164, 45, 45)
hslhsl(0, 57%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.482 0.156 25.2)
Closest name: brown (#a52a2a)Relative luminance 0.0996

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2da4a4

#a42d69 · #a4692d

#2da42d · #2d2da4

Split-complementary

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#2da469 · #2d69a4

#69a42d · #2da4a4 · #692da4

Contrast

#a42d2d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.02:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.99:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #cd4747 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #db7b7b as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a42d2d 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

#a42d2d reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a42d2d
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 #a42d2d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a42d2d-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md