Color

#a5380d

#a5380d
hex#a5380d
rgbrgb(165, 56, 13)
hslhsl(17, 85%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.493 0.152 38.5)
Closest name: Brick (#a03623)Relative luminance 0.1086

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0d7aa5

#a50d2e · #a5840d

#0da538 · #380da5

Split-complementary

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#0da584 · #0d2ea5

#2ea50d · #0d7aa5 · #840da5

Contrast

#a5380d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.62:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9c350d as the text (7.17:1)
Aaon black
3.17:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #d04711 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #ef703e as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d6d6d6 (4.56:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a5380d as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#a5380d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5380d
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 #a5380d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a5380d-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md