Maple
Open in tool →The three colours a maple goes through in October, on a warm white — loud, seasonal, and readable because the type is near-black.
Color
#c72939
#c72939
hex
#c72939rgb
rgb(199, 41, 57)hsl
hsl(354, 66%, 47%)oklch
oklch(0.543 0.192 21.8)Closest name: Bento Box (#cc363c)Relative luminance 0.1402
Colors that go with #c72939
Teal, Dark Olive Green and Gold 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 #c72939 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #c72939 in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold is paired with #c72939 in 4 real palettes, including Tabloid and Garnet, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #c72939 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #c72939 in 5 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Newsprint, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #c72939 in 8 real palettes, including Svelte's brand system and Typewriter, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #c72939: 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 #c72939: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #c72939
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c72939 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.52:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.8:1 | 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 #c72939 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#c72939 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c72939
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 #c72939 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c72939-c49d9c-62cb8e-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