Color

#d85222

#d85222
hex#d85222
rgbrgb(216, 82, 34)
hslhsl(16, 73%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.611 0.178 38.4)
Closest name: Baptism by Fire (#e6490b)Relative luminance 0.2075

Colors that go with #d85222

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 →

#22a8d8

#d8224c · #d8ae22

#22d852 · #5222d8

Split-complementary

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#22d8ae · #224cd8

#4cd822 · #22a8d8 · #ae22d8

Contrast

#d85222 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.08:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #cb4d20 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #963917 as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
5.15:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #e47a53 as the text (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #d85222 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#d85222 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d85222
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 #d85222 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d85222-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md