Candlelight
Open in tool →Burgundy, gold and a blush on warm white — the evening wedding set; burgundy carries the formality, blush the softness.
Color
#77282a
#77282a
hex
#77282argb
rgb(119, 40, 42)hsl
hsl(358, 50%, 31%)oklch
oklch(0.396 0.111 22.3)Closest name: Arcane Red (#6a2f2f)Relative luminance 0.0561
Colors that go with #77282a
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 #77282a 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 #77282a in 5 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 #77282a: 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #77282a: 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 #77282a, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #77282a, as the text colour against it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #77282a: 3 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #77282a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #77282a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #77282a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.9:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.12:1 | 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 #77282a 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
#77282a reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #77282a
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 #77282a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/77282a-c49f9c-62cb95-2d251f-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