Color

#c8490e

#c8490e
hex#c8490e
rgbrgb(200, 73, 14)
hslhsl(19, 87%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.573 0.173 40.2)
Closest name: Bolognese (#bb4400)Relative luminance 0.1708

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0e8dc8

#c80e30 · #c8a60e

#0ec849 · #490ec8

Split-complementary

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#0ec8a6 · #0e30c8

#30c80e · #0e8dc8 · #a60ec8

Contrast

#c8490e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.76:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #99380b as the text (7.18:1)
Aaon black
4.42:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #cd4b0e as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #f16e32 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fafafa (4.56:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c8490e 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

#c8490e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c8490e
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 #c8490e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c8490e-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md