Color

#dc4618

#dc4618
hex#dc4618
rgbrgb(220, 70, 24)
hslhsl(14, 80%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.603 0.194 36)
Closest name: Baptism by Fire (#e6490b)Relative luminance 0.1966

Colors that go with #dc4618

Charcoal, Sea Green and Steel 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#18afdc

#dc184d · #dca818

#18dc46 · #4618dc

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#18dca8 · #184ddc

#4ddc18 · #18afdc · #a818dc

Contrast

#dc4618 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.26:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #d34317 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #a13312 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (4.5:1)
Aaon black
4.93:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ec7551 as the text (7.23:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #dc4618 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

#dc4618 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dc4618
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 #dc4618 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dc4618-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md