Color

#a8154d

#a8154d
hex#a8154d
rgbrgb(168, 21, 77)
hslhsl(337, 78%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.478 0.18 6.2)
Closest name: Bindi Red (#b0003c)Relative luminance 0.094

Colors that go with #a8154d

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 #a8154d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#15a870

#a81597 · #a82615

#4da815 · #154da8

Split-complementary

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#15a826 · #1597a8

#97a815 · #15a870 · #2615a8

Contrast

#a8154d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.29:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e31c68 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #ec699c as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a8154d 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

#a8154d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8154d
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 #a8154d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8154d-c49ca7-62cb70-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md