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Color
#fd3538
#fd3538
hex
#fd3538rgb
rgb(253, 53, 56)hsl
hsl(359, 98%, 60%)oklch
oklch(0.647 0.233 26.2)Closest name: Blood Burst (#ff474c)Relative luminance 0.2371
Colors that go with #fd3538
Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Amber 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #fd3538: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #fd3538 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #fd3538 in 7 real palettes, including Google's brand system and Heatwave, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped8 real palettes, including Doordash's brand system and Gap's brand system put Blue beside #fd3538, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #fd3538: 5 real palettes, including NASA's brand system and Tide's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #fd3538: 14 real palettes, including ElevenLabs's brand system and L'Oréal's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #fd3538: 7 real palettes, including Databricks's brand system and Google's brand system, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #fd3538: 7 real palettes, including 3M's brand system and Ember, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #fd3538
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fd3538 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.66:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.74:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #fd3538 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fd3538 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fd3538
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #fd3538 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fd3538-c4a09c-62cb96-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md