Color
#af282c
#af282crgb(175, 40, 44)hsl(358, 63%, 42%)oklch(0.497 0.171 24.7)Colors that go with #af282c
Teal, Dark Olive Green 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #af282c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #af282c in 5 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Cider, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #af282c in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Noir Beauty, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #af282c in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Trailhead, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #af282c in 6 real palettes, including Newsprint and Typewriter, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #af282c in 9 real palettes, including Typewriter and Olive Grove, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #af282c in 3 real palettes, including Ember and Maple, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #af282c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #af282c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #af282c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.64:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.16:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #af282c 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
#af282c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #af282c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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