Rust is the colour of oxidised iron: a dark, heavily saturated burnt orange. #B7410E sits at 18° hue, 86% saturation and 39% lightness, which is what gives it that aged, pigmented quality. Copy the HEX codes from any scheme below, or generate a harmonious rust palette anchored to a base colour you pick.
Warm Rust is the deepest, from a near-black #3B1105 up to #D96A3B. Rust & Clay softens the dark end, #6B2D18 at 63% saturation, and reaches a light #EBB08E. Soft Rust is the only set with a background tone, #F5E1D6.
#3B1105#5E1C08#8A2C0D#B7410E#D96A3B#6B2D18#9C3D26#B7410E#D97C56#EBB08E#F5E1D6#E6B8A0#D18E6B#B7410E#8A2F0AAnchored to a rust base — press Space or Generate to roll more schemes. Click a swatch to copy its HEX, lock one to keep it while the rest re-roll, then export as CSS, JSON or HEX.
Drag in the colour area or the hue bar, or type a HEX / RGB value, then build a scheme anchored to it.
Rust is warm and earthy, and the pairings that work come from the same ground: olive green, mustard, cream and a deep brown. A muted teal is the cool option when the palette needs one. Autumn campaigns, boho interiors, ceramics and heritage branding use it. Terracotta is the lighter, pinker relative.
:root block with each colour as a custom property (--color-1, --color-2 and so on), or copy a single HEX straight from any swatch above. On a narrow phone the generator shows four swatches instead of five, so the block you copy there carries four custom properties. Whatever the width, it rolls around #B7410E, the rust this page is seeded with, so the export stays on-hue. Copy JSON and Copy HEX give the same values as an array and as a comma-separated line.More palettes: Autumn palette · Earth Tone palette · Maroon palette · all colours