Color

#a5381d

#a5381d
hex#a5381d
rgbrgb(165, 56, 29)
hslhsl(12, 70%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.495 0.149 34.9)
Closest name: Brick (#a03623)Relative luminance 0.1092

Colors that go with #a5381d

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 #a5381d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1d8aa5

#a51d46 · #a57c1d

#1da538 · #381da5

Split-complementary

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#1da57c · #1d46a5

#46a51d · #1d8aa5 · #7c1da5

Contrast

#a5381d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.6:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9c351c as the text (7.14:1)
Aaon black
3.18:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #d04725 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #e3795f as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d6d6d6 (4.54:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a5381d 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

#a5381d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5381d
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 #a5381d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a5381d-c4a99c-62cbad-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md