Blush
Open in tool →Rose and skin tones on a pink-white surface — soft focus, flattering, unmistakably beauty.
Color
#dc8884
#dc8884
hex
#dc8884rgb
rgb(220, 136, 132)hsl
hsl(3, 56%, 69%)oklch
oklch(0.713 0.104 22.9)Closest name: Boho Blush (#e58787)Relative luminance 0.3449
Colors that go with #dc8884
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Cornflower 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementshippedCadet Blue is a split-complement of #dc8884: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #dc8884 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #dc8884 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #dc8884 in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Maple, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #dc8884, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Blush and Estate put Blush Pink beside #dc8884, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #dc8884 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #dc8884
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #dc8884 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.66:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.9:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #dc8884 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
#dc8884 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #dc8884
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #dc8884 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/dc8884-c4a39c-62cb9d-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md