Color

#c42017

#c42017
hex#c42017
rgbrgb(196, 32, 23)
hslhsl(3, 79%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.528 0.199 29.2)
Closest name: Blood Kiss (#c30b0a)Relative luminance 0.1283

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#17bcc4

#c41765 · #c47617

#17c420 · #2017c4

Split-complementary

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#17c476 · #1765c4

#65c417 · #17bcc4 · #7617c4

Contrast

#c42017 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.89:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ad1c14 as the text (7.11:1)
Aaon black
3.57:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #e4251b as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #ed6f68 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (4.59:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c42017 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

#c42017 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c42017
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 #c42017 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c42017-c4a39c-62cb9d-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md