Color

#dd5003

#dd5003
hex#dd5003
rgbrgb(221, 80, 3)
hslhsl(21, 97%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.615 0.189 40.8)
Closest name: Baptism by Fire (#e6490b)Relative luminance 0.2112

Colors that go with #dd5003

Charcoal, Dodger Blue and Sea Green 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 →

#0391dd

#dd0324 · #ddbc03

#03dd50 · #5003dd

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#03ddbc · #0324dd

#24dd03 · #0391dd · #bc03dd

Contrast

#dd5003 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #ce4a03 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #9c3802 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.58:1)
Aaon black
5.22:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #fb6818 as the text (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #dd5003 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#dd5003 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dd5003
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 #dd5003 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dd5003-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md