Antique Garnet Color

#8e5e5e

Antique Garnet is pale, warm-toned shade of mid red. It is better contrasting with white. This color combines beautifully with warm cyan, warm blue or warm green

Inverse Color #71a1a1
Complementary Color #5e8e8e
Color Shade: mid red (0° hue)
Color Temperature: warm
Lightness: 46.27% (better contrasting with white)
Antique Garnet Color Sample
Antique Garnet Color Sample

Better Alternatives To #8e5e5e

If you're looking for a similar mid red shade, there are some better alternatives to Antique Garnet Color. The Smokey Claret color for instance is a lighter and a bit more faded option, however this color has a red magenta bias. Consider a lighter and more saturated alternative called Cinnamon Diamonds (#a97673) for more energetic effect. Try Semi Sweet as it also a bit more faded and calm.

Complementary Palette

#5e8e8e is the best complementary color to Antique Garnet. Warm cyan shades generally complement the mid red hues best as they are found on the opposite end of the color wheel. The most popular #8e5e5e complementary color is Patina, as it offers maximum contrast and grab the viewer's attention.

Analogous Palette

The analogous palette of warm magenta, mid red, and warm red colors offers a soft combination of similar warm shades. The analogous colors of Au Chico are #8e5e76 and #8e765e. Thus found on the left and right of #8e5e5e on the color wheel with a 30° gap. Consider matching Strikemaster and Domino colors as they work well with Antique Garnet.

Split-complementary Palette

The split-complementary Antique Garnet palette consists of #5e758e and #5e8e76 colors. They can be found 30° apart on either side of the complementary color (#5e8e8e). Try Lynch and Viridian Green colors in combination with #8e5e5e, as they are not as contrasting as a complementary color, hence, giving more hue variety to make your design stand out.

Triadic Palette

The triadic palette of #8e5e5e offers a combination of cool blue and warm green shades and equally high contrast between the three of them. Find triadic colors at the 120° distance from the Antique Garnet. Thus Waikawa Gray and Glade Green giving maximum hue separation to use all three together.

Square Palette

The square color palette of Antique Garnet contains three additional colors. Thus, complementary Patina, Highland, and Rum split by 90° on the color wheel. #8e5e5e square combo is a palette of mid red, cool yellow, warm cyan and warm blue shades that work together well.

Tetradic Palette

The tetradic palette is a bit more complex than the square and has more of a rectangle shape. Antique Garnet tetradic combo consists of warm cyan complementary color (#5e8e8e) and two others. The Glade Green is positioned 120° clockwise from the primary color and Strikemaster – 120° from the complementary Patina. This palette is not recommended to use as-is. Try to tweak the saturation and brightness of #5e8e5e and #8e5e8e.

Conversion Table

In a RGB color space, hex #8e5e5e is made of 43% red, 28% green and 28% blue. In a HSL mode Antique Garnet has a hue angle of 0°, a saturation of 20.34% and a lightness of 46.27%. In a CMYK space (used in printing only), hex #8e5e5e is made of 0% cyan, 18.83% magenta, 18.83% yellow and 44.31% black ink.

HEX #8e5e5e
RGB Decimal rgb(142,94,94)
RGB Percentage 43%, 28%, 28%
CMYK 0, 18.83, 18.83, 44.31
HSL hsl(0,20.34%,46.27%)
HSV (or HSB) hsv(0,33.8%,55.69%)
CIE-LAB lab(45.0316,19.6277,8.0356)
XYZ xyz(17.1784,14.5643,12.4955)
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