Autumn Color Palette — Cocoa & Maple Harvest
A warm five-color autumn scheme built on burnt orange, maple red, and ochre, grounded by olive and deep cocoa brown — every color matched to real paint you can buy.
By Emily Roberts · DIY Editor & First-Timer's Guide
This is autumn in a paint chip. Burnt Orange does the heavy lifting here, that toasty pumpkin tone you picture on a crisp October morning. It is warm without going neon, which is exactly why it works on a real wall in 2026.
Underneath it, Warm Ochre acts as your calm backdrop, and Soft Olive sneaks in a little green so the whole thing does not feel like a single orange blur. That olive is the quiet trick that makes this palette read modern instead of dated.
Then come the deep notes. Maple Red adds richness, and Deep Cocoa grounds everything like good strong coffee. Use those last two in small doses — a door, some trim, a single accent wall — and let the warmer tones carry the room.
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Each color matched to the closest real paint in every brand, by ΔE2000. Kompozit first; take any SKU to the store — these mix on demand.
Questions
They all share a warm, earthy base, so they feel like they belong to the same season. The olive cools things just enough to keep the warm tones from feeling heavy.
Let the burnt orange lead, lean on the ochre as a softer backdrop, and save the maple red and deep cocoa for smaller touches like a wall, a door, or trim.
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