Color

#a52233

#a52233
hex#a52233
rgbrgb(165, 34, 51)
hslhsl(352, 66%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.475 0.166 19.9)
Closest name: brown (#a52a2a)Relative luminance 0.0938

Colors that go with #a52233

Royal Blue, Teal and Champagne 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 #a52233

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#22a594

#a52275 · #a55222

#33a522 · #2233a5

Split-complementary

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#22a552 · #2275a5

#75a522 · #22a594 · #5222a5

Contrast

#a52233 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.3:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d6384d as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #e27382 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a52233 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

#a52233 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a52233
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 #a52233 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a52233-c49c9d-62cb8a-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md