#dd404d as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	4.27:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #db3341 as the text (4.6:1) AAA: use #a91e29 as the text (7.23:1) AA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (4.55:1)
Aaon black	4.91:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #e7747e as the text (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #dd404d 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

e63946 457b9d f4a261 fff4e0 23201c

Retro Pop

Open in tool →

Fifties-diner red and steel blue with a peach — nostalgic pop that still passes contrast.

Playful Bold Warm

Fonts for this mood

#dd404d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →Playful fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dd404d

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 #dd404d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dd404d-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md