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Color
#da8281
#da8281
hex
#da8281rgb
rgb(218, 130, 129)hsl
hsl(1, 55%, 68%)oklch
oklch(0.7 0.109 20.9)Closest name: Babe (#dc7b7c)Relative luminance 0.3246
Colors that go with #da8281
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #da8281 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #da8281, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #da8281 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #da8281, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #da8281 in 4 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #da8281 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #da8281: 8 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #da8281 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.8:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.49:1 | 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 #da8281 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
#da8281 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #da8281
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 #da8281 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/da8281-c4a19c-62cb9a-2d261f-f1e9ed?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