Color

#a71b3e

#a71b3e
hex#a71b3e
rgbrgb(167, 27, 62)
hslhsl(345, 72%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.476 0.173 13.9)
Closest name: Bindi Red (#b0003c)Relative luminance 0.0935

Colors that go with #a71b3e

Royal Blue, Teal and Amber 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 #a71b3e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1ba784

#a71b84 · #a73e1b

#3ea71b · #1b3ea7

Split-complementary

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#1ba73e · #1b84a7

#84a71b · #1ba784 · #3e1ba7

Contrast

#a71b3e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.32:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #dd2c59 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #e76e8d as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fafafa (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a71b3e 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

#a71b3e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a71b3e
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 #a71b3e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a71b3e-c49ca1-62cb7e-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md