Candlelight
Open in tool →Burgundy, gold and a blush on warm white — the evening wedding set; burgundy carries the formality, blush the softness.
Color
#741b31
#741b31
hex
#741b31rgb
rgb(116, 27, 49)hsl
hsl(345, 62%, 28%)oklch
oklch(0.377 0.123 11.1)Closest name: Bordeaux (#7b002c)Relative luminance 0.0472
Colors that go with #741b31
Teal, Crimson and Taupe 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #741b31 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #741b31 in 6 real palettes, including M&M's's brand system and Burger King's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #741b31 in 7 real palettes, including Bookshop and Cider, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #741b31: 3 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Heinz's brand system, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #741b31: 3 real palettes, including Nursery and Macaron, as the supporting colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementSea Green is a split-complement of #741b31: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Rust #b7410e
analogousshippedRust is #741b31's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #741b31: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #741b31
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #741b31 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.8:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.94:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #741b31 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#741b31 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #741b31
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 #741b31 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/741b31-c49ca1-62cb7e-2d221f-f1e9ef?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