Color

#aa4b53

#aa4b53
hex#aa4b53
rgbrgb(170, 75, 83)
hslhsl(355, 39%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.537 0.125 17.1)
Closest name: Barbarossa (#a84734)Relative luminance 0.142

Colors that go with #aa4b53

Teal, Champagne 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 #aa4b53

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#4baaa2

#aa4b82 · #aa724b

#53aa4b · #4b53aa

Split-complementary

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#4baa72 · #4b82aa

#82aa4b · #4baaa2 · #724baa

Contrast

#aa4b53 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.47:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8e3e45 as the text (7.18:1)
Aaon black
3.84:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b65860 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #c98389 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (4.59:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa4b53 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

#aa4b53 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa4b53
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 #aa4b53 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa4b53-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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