Candlelight
Open in tool →Burgundy, gold and a blush on warm white — the evening wedding set; burgundy carries the formality, blush the softness.
Color
#79162f
#79162f
hex
#79162frgb
rgb(121, 22, 47)hsl
hsl(345, 69%, 28%)oklch
oklch(0.381 0.133 12.3)Closest name: Bordeaux (#7b002c)Relative luminance 0.0484
Colors that go with #79162f
Teal, Denim and Taupe 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 #79162f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim #1560bd
triadicshippedDenim completes a triad with #79162f — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #79162f in 3 real palettes, including M&M's's brand system and State Farm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementSea Green is a split-complement of #79162f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Rust #b7410e
analogousshippedRust is #79162f'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 #79162f, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #79162f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #79162f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #79162f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.67:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.97:1 | 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 #79162f 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
#79162f reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #79162f
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 #79162f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/79162f-c49ca1-62cb7e-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