Color

#c42e08

#c42e08
hex#c42e08
rgbrgb(196, 46, 8)
hslhsl(12, 92%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.538 0.191 33.6)
Closest name: Bloodshed (#ba271a)Relative luminance 0.1371

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#089ec4

#c40840 · #c48c08

#08c42e · #2e08c4

Split-complementary

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#08c48c · #0840c4

#40c408 · #089ec4 · #8c08c4

Contrast

#c42e08 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.61:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a62707 as the text (7.2:1)
Aaon black
3.74:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #dc3309 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #f76945 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (4.58:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c42e08 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

#c42e08 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c42e08
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 #c42e08 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c42e08-c4a99c-62cbad-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md