Candlelight
Open in tool →Burgundy, gold and a blush on warm white — the evening wedding set; burgundy carries the formality, blush the softness.
Color
#7e262e
#7e262e
hex
#7e262ergb
rgb(126, 38, 46)hsl
hsl(355, 54%, 32%)oklch
oklch(0.407 0.121 19.2)Closest name: Beet Red (#7e203f)Relative luminance 0.0602
Colors that go with #7e262e
Teal, Taupe and Champagne 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 #7e262e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #7e262e in 3 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #7e262e in 3 real palettes, including Bookshop and Typewriter, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementSteel Blue is a split-complement of #7e262e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is #7e262e's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #7e262e in two real palettes: Blush and Nursery, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #7e262e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #7e262e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #7e262e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.53:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.2:1 | 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 #7e262e 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
#7e262e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #7e262e
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 #7e262e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/7e262e-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?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