Garnet
Open in tool →Garnet, carnelian and citrine on a wine-black — the warm jewel set for spirits, theatre and jewellery itself.
Color
#98253e
#98253e
hex
#98253ergb
rgb(152, 37, 62)hsl
hsl(347, 61%, 37%)oklch
oklch(0.456 0.15 13.3)Closest name: Cranberry (#9e003a)Relative luminance 0.0835
Colors that go with #98253e
Denim, Teal 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.
Denim #1560bd
triadicshippedDenim completes a triad with #98253e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #98253e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Bramble put Champagne beside #98253e, as the text colour against it.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #98253e in 7 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #98253e in 4 real palettes, including Candlelight and Fireside, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Typewriter and Newsprint put Slate Gray beside #98253e, as the supporting colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #98253e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #98253e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #98253e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #98253e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.87:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.67:1 | 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 #98253e 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
#98253e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #98253e
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 #98253e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/98253e-c49ca0-62cb82-2d221f-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