Color
#a52224
#a52224rgb(165, 34, 36)hsl(359, 66%, 39%)oklch(0.473 0.167 25.8)Colors that go with #a52224
Teal, Goldenrod and Hunter Green 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #a52224 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #a52224 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Noir Beauty, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a52224 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Bookshop, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #a52224 in 5 real palettes, including Typewriter and Newsprint, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #a52224 in 7 real palettes, including Typewriter and Olive Grove, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #a52224 in 3 real palettes, including Ember and Maple, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #a52224 in 3 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Cider, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a52224: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #a52224
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a52224 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.36:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.85:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a52224 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
#a52224 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #a52224 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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