Candlelight
Open in tool →Burgundy, gold and a blush on warm white — the evening wedding set; burgundy carries the formality, blush the softness.
Color
#74252e
#74252e
hex
#74252ergb
rgb(116, 37, 46)hsl
hsl(353, 52%, 30%)oklch
oklch(0.388 0.111 17.3)Closest name: Arcane Red (#6a2f2f)Relative luminance 0.0523
Colors that go with #74252e
Teal, Crimson and Denim 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 #74252e 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 #74252e in 5 real palettes, including M&M's's brand system and State Farm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
triadicshippedDenim completes a triad with #74252e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #74252e: 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped3 real palettes, including Blush and Nursery put Blush Pink beside #74252e, as the supporting colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #74252e: 3 real palettes, including Nursery and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped3 real palettes, including Bookshop and Sepia Mono put Slate Gray beside #74252e, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #74252e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #74252e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #74252e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.26:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.05:1 | 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 #74252e 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
#74252e reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #74252e
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 #74252e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/74252e-c49c9c-62cb8c-2d241f-f1e9ee?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