Color

#dc565f

#dc565f
hex#dc565f
rgbrgb(220, 86, 95)
hslhsl(356, 66%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.631 0.168 19.3)
Closest name: Aphrodisiac (#e35a63)Relative luminance 0.227

Colors that go with #dc565f

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Amber 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.

Real palettes that use #dc565f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#56dcd3

#dc56a2 · #dc9056

#5fdc56 · #565fdc

Split-complementary

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#56dc90 · #56a2dc

#a2dc56 · #56dcd3 · #9056dc

Contrast

#dc565f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.79:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #d73c47 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #a9232c as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (4.59:1)
Aaon black
5.54:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #e3787f as the text (7.26:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #dc565f 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

#dc565f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dc565f
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 #dc565f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dc565f-c49e9c-62cb91-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md