Color

#bc1038

#bc1038
hex#bc1038
rgbrgb(188, 16, 56)
hslhsl(346, 84%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.509 0.197 18)
Closest name: Active Volcano (#bb1133)Relative luminance 0.1135

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#10bc94

#bc108e · #bc3e10

#38bc10 · #1038bc

Split-complementary

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#10bc3e · #108ebc

#8ebc10 · #10bc94 · #3e10bc

Contrast

#bc1038 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.42:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ae0f34 as the text (7.2:1)
Aaon black
3.27:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #e61445 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #f26989 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (4.55:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bc1038 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

#bc1038 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bc1038
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 #bc1038 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bc1038-c49ca1-62cb80-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md