Color

#a71b45

#a71b45
hex#a71b45
rgbrgb(167, 27, 69)
hslhsl(342, 72%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.478 0.174 10.6)
Closest name: Bindi Red (#b0003c)Relative luminance 0.0943

Colors that go with #a71b45

Denim, Teal and Crimson 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 #a71b45

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1ba77d

#a71b8b · #a7371b

#45a71b · #1b45a7

Split-complementary

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#1ba737 · #1b8ba7

#8ba71b · #1ba77d · #371ba7

Contrast

#a71b45 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.28:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #dc285e as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #e76e93 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a71b45 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

#a71b45 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a71b45
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 #a71b45 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a71b45-c49ca3-62cb79-2d211f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md