Color

#a72536

#a72536
hex#a72536
rgbrgb(167, 37, 54)
hslhsl(352, 64%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.482 0.165 19.4)
Closest name: brown (#a52a2a)Relative luminance 0.098

Colors that go with #a72536

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#25a796

#a72577 · #a75525

#36a725 · #2536a7

Split-complementary

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#25a755 · #2577a7

#77a725 · #25a796 · #5525a7

Contrast

#a72536 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.09:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d43a4f as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #e17583 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (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 #a72536 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

#a72536 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a72536
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 #a72536 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a72536-c49c9d-62cb8a-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md