Color

#a50d27

#a50d27
hex#a50d27
rgbrgb(165, 13, 39)
hslhsl(350, 85%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.461 0.179 21.5)
Closest name: Blood Rush (#aa2222)Relative luminance 0.0843

Colors that go with #a50d27

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.

Real palettes that use #a50d27

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0da58c

#a50d73 · #a5400d

#27a50d · #0d27a5

Split-complementary

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#0da540 · #0d73a5

#73a50d · #0da58c · #400da5

Contrast

#a50d27 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.82:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e71336 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #f3687f as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a50d27 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

#a50d27 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a50d27
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 #a50d27 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a50d27-c49c9e-62cb87-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md