Color

#d96d85

#d96d85
hex#d96d85
rgbrgb(217, 109, 133)
hslhsl(347, 59%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.137 7.5)
Closest name: palevioletred (#db7093)Relative luminance 0.2738

Colors that go with #d96d85

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Crimson 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 #d96d85

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6dd9c2

#d96dbb · #d98c6d

#85d96d · #6d85d9

Split-complementary

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#6dd98c · #6dbbd9

#bbd96d · #6dd9c2 · #8c6dd9

Contrast

#d96d85 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.24:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #cf4462 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #a22a44 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.67:1)
Aaon black
6.48:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #dc798f as the text (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #d96d85 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

#d96d85 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d96d85
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 #d96d85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d96d85-c49ca0-62cb82-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md