Color

#ec182a

#ec182a
hex#ec182a
rgbrgb(236, 24, 42)
hslhsl(355, 85%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.6 0.235 25.6)
Closest name: Barberry (#ee1133)Relative luminance 0.1865

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#18ecdb

#ec1894 · #ec7018

#2aec18 · #182aec

Split-complementary

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#18ec70 · #1894ec

#94ec18 · #18ecdb · #7018ec

Contrast

#ec182a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.44:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #e71324 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #af0e1c as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #080808 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
4.73:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #f36874 as the text (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ec182a as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#ec182a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec182a
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 #ec182a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec182a-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md