Named color

Bloodshed

#ba271a

hex#ba271a

rgbrgb(186, 39, 26)

hslhsl(5, 75%, 42%)

oklchoklch(0.515 0.185 29.8)

Relative luminance 0.1196

Warm Vivid Playful Bold

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Bloodshed 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 curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.

Tints & shades

Tints — toward white

d62e1f e13c2d e55548 e86a5e ec8379 f09c94 f3b0aa f7c9c5 fadedb fef7f6

Shades — toward black

aa2418 982116 8a1e14 781a11 67160f 55120c 430e0a 360b08 240805 120403

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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ba271a 1baebb

#1baebb

Analogous

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ba271a bb1b5e bb781b

#bb1b5e · #bb781b

Triadic

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ba271a 1bbb28 281bbb

#1bbb28 · #281bbb

Split-complementary

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ba271a 1bbb78 1b5ebb

#1bbb78 · #1b5ebb

Tetradic

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ba271a 5ebb1b 1baebb 781bbb

#5ebb1b · #1baebb · #781bbb

Contrast

Bloodshed as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	6.19:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #aa2418 as the text (7.06:1)
Aaon black	3.39:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #df3020 as the text (4.58:1) AAA: use #e97267 as the text (7.07:1) AA: or shift the background to #dedede (4.6:1)

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

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

b91c1c 78716c d97706 f5f1ea 1c1917

Newsprint

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Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.

Editorial Muted Warm

Fonts for this mood

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

Warm fonts →Playful fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around Bloodshed

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 #ba271a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ba271a-c4a49c-62cba1-2d261f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md