Cranberry

Where it sits

Deep Winter palette

Cranberry is an anchor color in Deep Winter. The nearest color on the same side of the warm–cool line is Cool raspberry #A63A5B, a True Summer color, at a distance of 13: close enough to mistake for it on a hanger, far enough to tell apart on a person.

Every dark red on a shop floor gets called burgundy, wine or bordeaux, and the names tell you nothing about temperature. Cranberry is the cool one. Hold it beside anything orange. If it looks pink by comparison, it is cranberry. If it looks like a very dark rust, it is warm burgundy and belongs to Dark Autumn.

On a Deep Winter it is the easiest red to wear, because it has the depth of black and the coolness of the palette but not the demand of a saturated blue-red. A cranberry coat over black is a complete outfit. Cranberry and emerald is the palette's one loud pairing and it works, in small doses.

This hex sits four points from the Deep Winter swatch set, which is as close as the registry gets. The nearest neighbour in another season is True Summer's cool raspberry, thirteen points away and lighter, with more pink. Dark Autumn's warm burgundy is fifteen off with the undertone flipped.

Easily confused with

Warm burgundy, #6E2233, is the color this gets sold as, and it is warm where cranberry is cool. On a Deep Winter warm burgundy looks faintly brown. On a Dark Autumn cranberry looks faintly purple. The gap is fifteen points, invisible on a hanger and visible on a face.

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).

In stock in this color today

As of November 11, 2026, 11 in-stock pieces across Boden, Marine Layer, STAUD and Christy Dawn sample within a close match of #8A1538. 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.

Gwen Dress

Carmino

$395 at STAUD

Dream Jersey Rugby Polo

Sky & Cabernet

$88 at Marine Layer

Clara Silk Blend Tie Neck Top

Ruby Red

$190 at Boden

Georgia Jersey Midi Dress

Beetroot Red

$149 at Boden

Eden Maxi Dress

Merlot Flora

$78 at Marine Layer

Marta Merino Wool Sailor Top

Pinotage

$190 at Boden

The Thora Cardigan

Beetroot

$398 at Christy Dawn

High Neck Jersey Top

Beet Red

$69 at Boden

Fleur Cord Midi Shirt Dress

Ruby Red

$199 at Boden

Aylesford Wool Coat

Vino

$320 at Boden

Supersoft Square Neck Top

Rich Chestnut

$59 at Boden

What it's sold as

Retailers almost never use the palette name. These are the color names on the in-stock pieces that sample within a close match of #8A1538 today, so they are the words to search for.

Boden

Ruby Red, Beetroot Red, Pinotage, Beet Red, Vino, Rich Chestnut

Marine Layer

Sky & Cabernet, Merlot Flora

STAUD

Carmino

Christy Dawn

Beetroot

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.

Questions

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