Color

#a80b42

#a80b42
hex#a80b42
rgbrgb(168, 11, 66)
hslhsl(339, 88%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.471 0.183 10.5)
Closest name: Bindi Red (#b0003c)Relative luminance 0.0896

Colors that go with #a80b42

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 #a80b42

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0ba871

#a80b90 · #a8220b

#42a80b · #0b42a8

Split-complementary

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#0ba822 · #0b90a8

#90a80b · #0ba871 · #220ba8

Contrast

#a80b42 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.52:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e60f5a as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #f56195 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a80b42 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

#a80b42 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a80b42
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 #a80b42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a80b42-c49ca5-62cb74-2d211f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md