Color

#d8440e

#d8440e
hex#d8440e
rgbrgb(216, 68, 14)
hslhsl(16, 88%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.594 0.193 36.9)
Closest name: Bacon Strips (#df3f32)Relative luminance 0.1876

Colors that go with #d8440e

Charcoal, Sea Green and Steel Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#0ea2d8

#d80e3d · #d8a90e

#0ed844 · #440ed8

Split-complementary

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#0ed8a9 · #0e3dd8

#3dd80e · #0ea2d8 · #a90ed8

Contrast

#d8440e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.42:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #d3420d as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #9e320a as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #080808 (4.53:1)
Aaon black
4.75:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #f36f3f as the text (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #d8440e as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#d8440e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d8440e
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 #d8440e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d8440e-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md