Fireside
Open in tool →Cranberry, pine and brass on a charcoal night — the holiday palette without the clichés, because the surface is cold.
Color
#ae323b
#ae323b
hex
#ae323brgb
rgb(174, 50, 59)hsl
hsl(356, 55%, 44%)oklch
oklch(0.507 0.16 21.1)Closest name: Amore (#ae2f48)Relative luminance 0.116
Colors that go with #ae323b
Royal Blue, 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #ae323b — 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 #ae323b 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 BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #ae323b, as the text colour against it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ae323b in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and BrandSweets's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ae323b: 9 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and Nissan's brand system, as the accent.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold shows up next to #ae323b in 4 real palettes, including Garnet and Lay's's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #ae323b in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Trailhead, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ae323b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #ae323b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ae323b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.33:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.32:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae323b 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
#ae323b reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae323b
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 #ae323b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ae323b-c49e9c-62cb91-2d241f-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