Fireside
Open in tool →Cranberry, pine and brass on a charcoal night — the holiday palette without the clichés, because the surface is cold.
Color
#ae4247
#ae4247
hex
#ae4247rgb
rgb(174, 66, 71)hsl
hsl(357, 45%, 47%)oklch
oklch(0.528 0.141 20.6)Closest name: Barbarossa (#a84734)Relative luminance 0.1335
Colors that go with #ae4247
Royal Blue, Sea Green and Steel Blue 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 #ae4247 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #ae4247 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #ae4247: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #ae4247 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ae4247 in 5 real palettes, including Ember and Maple, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #ae4247, as the text colour against it.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ae4247: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ae4247 in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and BrandSweets's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ae4247
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ae4247 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.72:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.67:1 | 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 #ae4247 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
#ae4247 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae4247
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 #ae4247 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ae4247-c49f9c-62cb93-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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