Color

#a7253a

#a7253a
hex#a7253a
rgbrgb(167, 37, 58)
hslhsl(350, 64%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.482 0.165 17.6)
Closest name: brown (#a52a2a)Relative luminance 0.0984

Colors that go with #a7253a

Royal Blue, 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 #a7253a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#25a792

#a7257c · #a75025

#3aa725 · #253aa7

Split-complementary

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#25a750 · #257ca7

#7ca725 · #25a792 · #5025a7

Contrast

#a7253a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.07:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d43a54 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #e17587 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a7253a 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

#a7253a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a7253a
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 #a7253a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a7253a-c49c9e-62cb87-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md