Harvest
Open in tool →Pumpkin, straw and burnt gold on parchment — the autumn palette that still feels like a product, not a place-mat.
Color
#af461d
#af461d
hex
#af461drgb
rgb(175, 70, 29)hsl
hsl(17, 72%, 40%)oklch
oklch(0.529 0.147 39.9)Closest name: Rust (#b7410e)Relative luminance 0.1358
Colors that go with #af461d
Teal, Champagne and Dark Olive Green 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 #af461d 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 #af461d in 4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Bramble, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #af461d in 5 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Magazine Ochre, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #af461d in 5 real palettes, including Trailhead and Fireside, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #af461d in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Darkroom, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #af461d in 8 real palettes, including Gallery and Noir Beauty, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #af461d: 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 #af461d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #af461d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #af461d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.65:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.72:1 | 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 #af461d 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
#af461d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #af461d
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 #af461d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/af461d-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?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