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Color
#d88979
#d88979
hex
#d88979rgb
rgb(216, 137, 121)hsl
hsl(10, 55%, 66%)oklch
oklch(0.708 0.1 32.1)Closest name: Bite My Tongue (#d47d72)Relative luminance 0.3387
Colors that go with #d88979
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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #d88979 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #d88979: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #d88979 in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Maple, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #d88979, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Blush and Estate put Blush Pink beside #d88979, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #d88979 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #d88979, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #d88979: 4 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #d88979
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d88979 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.7:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.77:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #d88979 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
#d88979 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #d88979
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #d88979 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/d88979-c4a79c-62cbaa-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md