Color

#ec181b

#ec181b
hex#ec181b
rgbrgb(236, 24, 27)
hslhsl(359, 85%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.599 0.236 28)
Closest name: Alarm (#ec0003)Relative luminance 0.1857

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#18ece9

#ec1886 · #ec7f18

#1bec18 · #181bec

Split-complementary

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#18ec7f · #1886ec

#86ec18 · #18ece9 · #7f18ec

Contrast

#ec181b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.46:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #e71316 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #b30f11 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #050505 (4.57:1)
Aaon black
4.71:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #f36d6f as the text (7.23:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ec181b as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#ec181b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec181b
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 #ec181b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec181b-c4a09c-62cb96-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md