Color

#dc4c53

#dc4c53
hex#dc4c53
rgbrgb(220, 76, 83)
hslhsl(357, 67%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.616 0.18 21.4)
Closest name: Aphrodisiac (#e35a63)Relative luminance 0.2101

Colors that go with #dc4c53

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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 →

#4cdcd4

#dc4c9b · #dc8d4c

#53dc4c · #4c53dc

Split-complementary

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#4cdc8d · #4c9bdc

#9bdc4c · #4cdcd4 · #8d4cdc

Contrast

#dc4c53 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.04:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #d83b43 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #aa2228 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
5.2:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #e4777c 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 #dc4c53 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

#dc4c53 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dc4c53
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 #dc4c53 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dc4c53-c49f9c-62cb93-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md