Color

#dd4040

#dd4040
hex#dd4040
rgbrgb(221, 64, 64)
hslhsl(0, 70%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.602 0.194 25.2)
Closest name: Bacon Strips (#df3f32)Relative luminance 0.1941

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#40dddd

#dd408f · #dd8f40

#40dd40 · #4040dd

Split-complementary

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#40dd8f · #408fdd

#8fdd40 · #40dddd · #8f40dd

Contrast

#dd4040 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.3:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #dc3838 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #ad1f1f as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (4.52:1)
Aaon black
4.88:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #e77474 as the text (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #dd4040 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

#dd4040 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dd4040
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #dd4040 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dd4040-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md