Color
#dc5038
#dc5038rgb(220, 80, 56)hsl(9, 70%, 54%)oklch(0.617 0.18 32.1)Colors that go with #dc5038
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Sea Green 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 #dc5038 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #dc5038: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #dc5038 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #dc5038: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #dc5038 in 7 real palettes, including Google's brand system and McDonald's's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped9 real palettes, including Glossier's brand system and Doordash's brand system put Blue beside #dc5038, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #dc5038: 7 real palettes, including NASA's brand system and Pepsi's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #dc5038 in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #dc5038
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #dc5038 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.25:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #dc5038 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
#dc5038 reads as warm, vivid, playful. 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 #dc5038 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/dc5038-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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