Garnet
Open in tool →Garnet, carnelian and citrine on a wine-black — the warm jewel set for spirits, theatre and jewellery itself.
Color
#960d2d
#960d2d
hex
#960d2drgb
rgb(150, 13, 45)hsl
hsl(346, 84%, 32%)oklch
oklch(0.432 0.166 17.3)Closest name: Cranberry (#9e003a)Relative luminance 0.0696
Colors that go with #960d2d
Teal, Denim and Slate Gray 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 #960d2d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #960d2d: 6 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Campbell's's brand system, as the accent.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Typewriter and Newsprint put Slate Gray beside #960d2d, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #960d2d in 11 real palettes, including Chipotle's brand system and Cider, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #960d2d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Bramble put Champagne beside #960d2d, as the text colour against it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #960d2d: 3 real palettes, including Chipotle's brand system and Bramble, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #960d2d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #960d2d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #960d2d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.78:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.39:1 | 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 #960d2d 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
#960d2d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #960d2d
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 #960d2d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/960d2d-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