The Eleanor Coat
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#6B2A1A
Mahogany
A Dark Autumn color
anchor color 5 of 10 in Dark Autumn. Also called Deep Autumn in other systems.
By Kathleen Olsen · Updated November 11, 2026
Mahogany is the Dark Autumn red-brown: a red that has gone so far toward brown it reads as wood. It is one of the colors that separates Dark Autumn from the other Autumns, because it needs depth to work, and from the Winters, because it needs warmth. On the right person it is the richest color in the wardrobe.
Mahogany is an anchor color in Dark Autumn. The nearest color on the same side of the warm–cool line is Warm burgundy #8C3A2A, a True Autumn color, at a distance of 11: close enough to mistake for it on a hanger, far enough to tell apart on a person.
At RGB 107, 42, 26 the red leads by a wide margin, the green is well behind, and the blue is barely there. The absent blue is the warmth. The red being at less than half is the depth. Raise all three and it becomes terracotta; raise the blue and it becomes a wine, which is the Winter version and the one most often sold as mahogany.
A Dark Autumn wears it as the dark that is not black: a coat, a boot, a leather bag, a knit. It pairs with camel and golden brown as relatives, with dark olive and deep teal as complements, and with cream when the point is the mahogany itself. A mahogany knit with camel trousers is the Dark Autumn equivalent of burgundy with grey.
Retailers call it mahogany, maroon, rust brown, chestnut, cognac, brick, red earth or oxblood, and the names slide between red and brown. Hold the garment against a chocolate brown. Mahogany looks like a redder relative. A wine or burgundy looks like it came from a different family. On a rail, the test for the blue is the fastest one there is.
True Autumn's warm burgundy is eleven points away and a touch brighter; Dark Autumn's own oxblood is fifteen points deeper and redder. Dark Autumn's warm burgundy is eighteen points off and carries more blue. Deep Winter's cranberry is twenty-five points off and is the one that gets confused with it on a rail: same depth, opposite temperature. On a Dark Autumn, cranberry reads pink; on a Deep Winter, mahogany reads brown.
The nearest named colors in other seasons, by perceptual distance (ΔE in CIELAB; under 10 is hard to tell apart on a screen, over 25 is a different color).
Warm burgundy #8C3A2A
True Autumn anchor · ΔE 11
Dark chocolate #4A3526
True Autumn neutral · ΔE 24
Cranberry #8A1538
Deep Winter anchor · ΔE 25
Bronze #7A5A2E
True Autumn neutral · ΔE 25
Soft chocolate #5A4636
Soft Autumn neutral · ΔE 25
Soft rust #A96A4A
Soft Autumn anchor · ΔE 26
As of November 11, 2026, 1 in-stock piece across Christy Dawn sample within a close match of #6B2A1A. The dot on each card is the color we sampled from the garment itself; trust it over the photograph. Links are affiliate links: we earn a commission when you buy through them, at no cost to you.
Retailers almost never use the palette name. These are the color names on the in-stock pieces that sample within a close match of #6B2A1A today, so they are the words to search for.
A retailer's name for a color says nothing about its undertone. "Navy" at one shop is a True Winter color and at another a Spring one. The sampled dot on each card above is what we trust.
Yes. Mahogany (#6B2A1A) is an anchor color in the Dark Autumn palette. No other palette on the same side of the warm–cool line has a color near it, which makes it a reliable test for the season.
No, though they are relatives. Oxblood is fifteen points deeper and redder, RGB 74, 14, 14, and is the Dark Autumn red. Mahogany is browner and a little lighter, and does the job of a dark brown with red in it rather than a red with brown in it. Both are in the palette.
Yes. True Autumn's warm burgundy is eleven points away and slightly brighter. Mahogany reads a shade heavy on a True Autumn next to its own version, but it is fully warm and with camel or golden tan it works.
Warm. The blue channel is almost absent, which is the definition of a warm red-brown. The cool version of this depth is a wine or a cranberry, where the blue comes up, and that belongs to the Winters. If a mahogany looks faintly purple against white, it is a wine.
For a Dark Autumn: camel, golden brown, dark chocolate, dark olive, deep teal, cream and aged brass. Avoid grey, which makes it look muddy, and any cool pink.
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