Color

#d16e61

#d16e61
hex#d16e61
rgbrgb(209, 110, 97)
hslhsl(7, 55%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.649 0.127 28.8)
Closest name: Terracotta (#e2725b)Relative luminance 0.2557

Colors that go with #d16e61

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Amber lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #d16e61

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#61c4d1

#d1618c · #d1a661

#61d16e · #6e61d1

Split-complementary

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#61d1a6 · #618cd1

#8cd161 · #61c4d1 · #a661d1

Contrast

#d16e61 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.43:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #c74d3d as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #96382c as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.11:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #d78075 as the text (7.23:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #d16e61 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#d16e61 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d16e61
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #d16e61 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d16e61-c4a59c-62cba4-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md