Named color

Bleeding Crimson

#9b1414
hex#9b1414
rgbrgb(155, 20, 20)
hslhsl(0, 77%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.442 0.168 27.7)
Relative luminance 0.0752

Bleeding Crimson on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the 1 public brand that uses it and the palettes it appears in.

Colors that go with Bleeding Crimson

Royal Blue, Teal and Champagne 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 Bleeding Crimson

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#149999

#991457 · #995714

#149914 · #141499

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#149957 · #145799

#579914 · #149999 · #571499

Contrast

Bleeding Crimson as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.39:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e32626 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #ec6f6f as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bfbfbf (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.04:1)

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

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around Bleeding Crimson
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 #9b1414 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9b1414-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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