Color

#a8261a

#a8261a
hex#a8261a
rgbrgb(168, 38, 26)
hslhsl(5, 73%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.481 0.168 29.8)
Closest name: Blood Rush (#aa2222)Relative luminance 0.0979

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1a9ca8

#a81a55 · #a86d1a

#1aa826 · #261aa8

Split-complementary

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#1aa86d · #1a55a8

#55a81a · #1a9ca8 · #6d1aa8

Contrast

#a8261a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.1:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #dd3222 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #e87469 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a8261a 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

#a8261a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8261a
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a8261a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8261a-c4a49c-62cba1-2d261f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md