Color

#dc836a

#dc836a
hex#dc836a
rgbrgb(220, 131, 106)
hslhsl(13, 62%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.699 0.116 36.5)
Closest name: Bite My Tongue (#d47d72)Relative luminance 0.3249

Colors that go with #dc836a

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 #dc836a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6ac3dc

#dc6a8b · #dcbc6a

#6adc83 · #836adc

Split-complementary

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#6adcbc · #6a8bdc

#8bdc6a · #6ac3dc · #bc6adc

Contrast

#dc836a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c64f2f as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #953c23 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.5:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dc836a 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

#dc836a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dc836a
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 #dc836a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dc836a-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md