Color
#db999a
#db999argb(219, 153, 154)hsl(359, 48%, 73%)oklch(0.747 0.08 18.1)Colors that go with #db999a
Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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 #db999a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #db999a: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Paper & Pine, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #db999a, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #db999a: 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #db999a in 4 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 #db999a in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #db999a: 4 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Guinness's brand system, as the accent.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #db999a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #db999a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #db999a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.32:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.04:1 | 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 #db999a 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
#db999a reads as warm, light, clean. 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 #db999a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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