Color

#a42e0a

#a42e0a
hex#a42e0a
rgbrgb(164, 46, 10)
hslhsl(14, 89%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.48 0.16 35.5)
Closest name: Brick (#a03623)Relative luminance 0.0987

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0a80a4

#a40a33 · #a47b0a

#0aa42e · #2e0aa4

Split-complementary

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#0aa47b · #0a33a4

#33a40a · #0a80a4 · #7b0aa4

Contrast

#a42e0a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.06:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d93c0d as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #f46c43 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a42e0a 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

#a42e0a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a42e0a
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 #a42e0a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a42e0a-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md