Color

#ae280a

#ae280a
hex#ae280a
rgbrgb(174, 40, 10)
hslhsl(11, 89%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.492 0.174 33.1)
Closest name: firebrick (#b22222)Relative luminance 0.1054

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0a90ae

#ae0a3e · #ae7a0a

#0aae28 · #280aae

Split-complementary

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#0aae7a · #0a3eae

#3eae0a · #0a90ae · #7a0aae

Contrast

#ae280a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.76:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a9270a as the text (7.04:1)
Aaon black
3.11:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #de330d as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #f56b4d as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (4.56:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae280a 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

#ae280a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae280a
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 #ae280a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae280a-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md