Color
#d8699b
#d8699brgb(216, 105, 155)hsl(333, 59%, 63%)oklch(0.666 0.149 353.6)Colors that go with #d8699b
Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Mustard Yellow 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #d8699b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #d8699b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped4 real palettes, including Meadow and Lido put Mustard Yellow beside #d8699b, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #d8699b in 9 real palettes, including Blush and Meadow, as the text colour against it.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #d8699b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #d8699b in 3 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Snyk's brand system, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #d8699b in 3 real palettes, including Ubisoft's brand system and Roblox's brand system, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #d8699b: two real palettes: Terminal and Roblox's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #d8699b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d8699b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.27:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.41:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #d8699b 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
#d8699b reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #d8699b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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