Candlelight
Open in tool →Burgundy, gold and a blush on warm white — the evening wedding set; burgundy carries the formality, blush the softness.
Color
#76282c
#76282c
hex
#76282crgb
rgb(118, 40, 44)hsl
hsl(357, 49%, 31%)oklch
oklch(0.395 0.109 20.7)Closest name: Arcane Red (#6a2f2f)Relative luminance 0.0555
Colors that go with #76282c
Teal, Crimson and Sage Green 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 #76282c 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 #76282c in 6 real palettes, including M&M's's brand system and State Farm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #76282c: 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #76282c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped3 real palettes, including Blush and Nursery put Blush Pink beside #76282c, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #76282c, as the text colour against it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #76282c: 3 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #76282c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #76282c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #76282c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.95:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.11:1 | 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 #76282c 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
#76282c reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #76282c
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 #76282c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/76282c-c49f9c-62cb93-2d251f-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