Saffron
Open in tool →Saffron and clove with a teal counterpoint — spice-market warmth, balanced so it doesn't go orange everywhere.
Color
#7a281a
#7a281a
hex
#7a281argb
rgb(122, 40, 26)hsl
hsl(9, 65%, 29%)oklch
oklch(0.399 0.117 32.1)Closest name: Blackened Sun (#77150e)Relative luminance 0.0573
Colors that go with #7a281a
Teal, Crimson 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 #7a281a 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 #7a281a in 4 real palettes, including M&M's's brand system and State Farm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #7a281a in 10 real palettes, including Bookshop and Cider, as that palette's text colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #7a281a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #7a281a, as the text colour against it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #7a281a: 3 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #7a281a: 3 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #7a281a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #7a281a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #7a281a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.79:1 | 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 #7a281a 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
#7a281a reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #7a281a
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 #7a281a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/7a281a-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?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