Color

#a42e1e

#a42e1e
hex#a42e1e
rgbrgb(164, 46, 30)
hslhsl(7, 69%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.481 0.157 31)
Closest name: Brick (#a03623)Relative luminance 0.0994

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1e94a4

#a41e51 · #a4711e

#1ea42e · #2e1ea4

Split-complementary

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#1ea471 · #1e51a4

#51a41e · #1e94a4 · #711ea4

Contrast

#a42e1e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.03:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.99:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d73c28 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #e37768 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (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 #a42e1e 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

#a42e1e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a42e1e
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 #a42e1e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a42e1e-c4a59c-62cba4-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md