Color

#a71b4a

#a71b4a
hex#a71b4a
rgbrgb(167, 27, 74)
hslhsl(340, 72%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.479 0.174 8.1)
Closest name: Bindi Red (#b0003c)Relative luminance 0.0949

Colors that go with #a71b4a

Teal, Crimson and Denim 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 #a71b4a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1ba778

#a71b8f · #a7321b

#4aa71b · #1b4aa7

Split-complementary

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#1ba732 · #1b8fa7

#8fa71b · #1ba778 · #321ba7

Contrast

#a71b4a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.24:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.9:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #dc2864 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #e76e97 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a71b4a 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

#a71b4a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a71b4a
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 #a71b4a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a71b4a-c49ca5-62cb75-2d211f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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