Color

#dd4508

#dd4508
hex#dd4508
rgbrgb(221, 69, 8)
hslhsl(17, 93%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.603 0.197 37.3)
Closest name: Baptism by Fire (#e6490b)Relative luminance 0.1965

Colors that go with #dd4508

Charcoal, Sea Green and Steel 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#08a1dd

#dd0836 · #ddaf08

#08dd45 · #4508dd

Split-complementary

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#08ddaf · #0836dd

#36dd08 · #08a1dd · #af08dd

Contrast

#dd4508 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.26:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #d44108 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #a23206 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (4.56:1)
Aaon black
4.93:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #f86930 as the text (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #dd4508 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

#dd4508 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dd4508
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 #dd4508 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dd4508-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md