brandsweets

Color

#e3161a

#e3161a
hex#e3161a
rgbrgb(227, 22, 26)
hslhsl(359, 82%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.582 0.229 27.9)
Closest name: Alarm (#ec0003)Relative luminance 0.1698
WarmVividPlayfulBold
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Colors that go with #e3161a

Charcoal, Royal Blue and Steel Blue 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 #e3161a

Netflix· brandWWE· brandNintendo· brandToyota· brand

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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e3161a16e3e0

#16e3e0

Analogous

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e3161ae31680e37a16

#e31680 · #e37a16

Triadic

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e3161a1ae316161ae3

#1ae316 · #161ae3

Split-complementary

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e3161a16e37a1680e3

#16e37a · #1680e3

Tetradic

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e3161a80e31616e3e07a16e3

#80e316 · #16e3e0 · #7a16e3

Contrast

#e3161a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.78:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b01114 as the text (7.15:1)
Aaon black
4.4:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #e8171a as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #f16f71 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fafafa (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 #e3161a as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#e3161a 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 #e3161a
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 #e3161a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e3161a-c4a09c-62cb96-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md