Saffron
Open in tool →Saffron and clove with a teal counterpoint — spice-market warmth, balanced so it doesn't go orange everywhere.
Color
#742e1a
#742e1a
hex
#742e1argb
rgb(116, 46, 26)hsl
hsl(13, 63%, 28%)oklch
oklch(0.397 0.104 36.6)Closest name: Arcane Red (#6a2f2f)Relative luminance 0.0574
Colors that go with #742e1a
Teal, Copper and Crimson 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 #742e1a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #742e1a: 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #742e1a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #742e1a: 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped3 real palettes, including Blush and Nursery put Blush Pink beside #742e1a, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #742e1a, as the text colour against it.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #742e1a: 3 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Heinz's brand system, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #742e1a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #742e1a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #742e1a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.78:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.15:1 | 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 #742e1a 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
#742e1a reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #742e1a
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 #742e1a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/742e1a-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-f1e9eb?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