Polaroid
Open in tool →Washed coral, faded aqua and a mustard — the 1970s film look, desaturated so it feels found rather than designed.
Color
#db9385
#db9385
hex
#db9385rgb
rgb(219, 147, 133)hsl
hsl(10, 54%, 69%)oklch
oklch(0.732 0.09 31.5)Closest name: Blushing Rose (#e09b81)Relative luminance 0.3762
Colors that go with #db9385
Charcoal, Light Sea Green and Cadet 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #db9385: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #db9385 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #db9385: 6 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Alpine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #db9385, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #db9385: 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #db9385 in 6 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #db9385 in 5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #db9385: 8 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Guinness's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #db9385
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #db9385 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.46:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.52:1 | 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 #db9385 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
#db9385 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #db9385
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 #db9385 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/db9385-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