Color

#a42e28

#a42e28
hex#a42e28
rgbrgb(164, 46, 40)
hslhsl(3, 61%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.483 0.155 27.5)
Closest name: brown (#a52a2a)Relative luminance 0.1

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#289ea4

#a42860 · #a46c28

#28a42e · #2e28a4

Split-complementary

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#28a46c · #2860a4

#60a428 · #289ea4 · #6c28a4

Contrast

#a42e28 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d0453e as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #dd7973 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d1d1d1 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a42e28 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

#a42e28 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a42e28
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 #a42e28 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a42e28-c4a39c-62cb9d-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md