Candlelight
Open in tool →Burgundy, gold and a blush on warm white — the evening wedding set; burgundy carries the formality, blush the softness.
Color
#78172e
#78172e
hex
#78172ergb
rgb(120, 23, 46)hsl
hsl(346, 68%, 28%)oklch
oklch(0.38 0.131 13)Closest name: Bordeaux (#7b002c)Relative luminance 0.048
Colors that go with #78172e
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 #78172e 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 #78172e in 4 real palettes, including M&M's's brand system and Burger King's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
triadicshippedDenim completes a triad with #78172e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #78172e in 7 real palettes, including Bookshop and Cider, as that palette's text colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementSea Green is a split-complement of #78172e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Rust #b7410e
analogousshippedRust is #78172e's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedTwo real palettes: Blush and Nursery put Blush Pink beside #78172e, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #78172e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #78172e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #78172e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.71:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.96:1 | 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 #78172e 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
#78172e reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #78172e
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 #78172e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/78172e-c49ca1-62cb80-2d221f-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