Color

#dd420e

#dd420e
hex#dd420e
rgbrgb(221, 66, 14)
hslhsl(15, 88%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.6 0.199 36)
Closest name: Baptism by Fire (#e6490b)Relative luminance 0.193

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0ea9dd

#dd0e42 · #dda90e

#0edd42 · #420edd

Split-complementary

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#0edda9 · #0e42dd

#42dd0e · #0ea9dd · #a90edd

Contrast

#dd420e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.32:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #d8400e as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #9e2f0a as the text (7.33:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (4.58:1)
Aaon black
4.86:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #f36c3f as the text (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #dd420e 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

#dd420e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dd420e
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 #dd420e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dd420e-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md