Color

#a72056

#a72056
hex#a72056
rgbrgb(167, 32, 86)
hslhsl(336, 68%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.486 0.173 2.8)
Closest name: Fancy Red Wine (#b40441)Relative luminance 0.0992

Colors that go with #a72056

Crimson, Denim and Goldenrod 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 #a72056

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#20a771

#a7209a · #a72d20

#56a720 · #2056a7

Split-complementary

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#20a72d · #209aa7

#9aa720 · #20a771 · #2d20a7

Contrast

#a72056 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.04:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.98:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d72d71 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #e4729f as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a72056 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

#a72056 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a72056
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 #a72056 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a72056-c49ca7-62cb6e-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md