Color

#aa183d

#aa183d
hex#aa183d
rgbrgb(170, 24, 61)
hslhsl(345, 75%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.48 0.178 14.4)
Closest name: Bindi Red (#b0003c)Relative luminance 0.0954

Colors that go with #aa183d

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.

Real palettes that use #aa183d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#18aa85

#aa1885 · #aa3d18

#3daa18 · #183daa

Split-complementary

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#18aa3d · #1885aa

#85aa18 · #18aa85 · #3d18aa

Contrast

#aa183d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.22:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e02453 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #ea6c8b as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa183d 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

#aa183d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa183d
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 #aa183d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa183d-c49ca1-62cb7e-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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