Color

#a50d22

#a50d22
hex#a50d22
rgbrgb(165, 13, 34)
hslhsl(352, 85%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.46 0.179 23.2)
Closest name: Bleeding Crimson (#9b1414)Relative luminance 0.084

Colors that go with #a50d22

Royal Blue, Teal and Crimson lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0da591

#a50d6d · #a5450d

#22a50d · #0d22a5

Split-complementary

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#0da545 · #0d6da5

#6da50d · #0da591 · #450da5

Contrast

#a50d22 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.83:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.68:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e7132f as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #f3687b as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a50d22 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

#a50d22 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a50d22
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a50d22 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a50d22-c49c9d-62cb8a-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md