Newsprint
Open in tool →Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Color
#b4271d
#b4271d
hex
#b4271drgb
rgb(180, 39, 29)hsl
hsl(4, 72%, 41%)oklch
oklch(0.504 0.179 29.2)Closest name: firebrick (#b22222)Relative luminance 0.1124
Colors that go with #b4271d
Royal Blue, Sea Green and Teal 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #b4271d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #b4271d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #b4271d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #b4271d in 4 real palettes, including Ember and Maple, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #b4271d in 4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and BrandSweets's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #b4271d in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and BrandSweets's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #b4271d in 9 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and Nissan's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #b4271d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #b4271d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b4271d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.46:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.25:1 | 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 #b4271d as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#b4271d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b4271d
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #b4271d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b4271d-c4a39c-62cb9f-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md