Color
#dd5040
#dd5040rgb(221, 80, 64)hsl(6, 70%, 56%)oklch(0.62 0.179 29.5)Colors that go with #dd5040
Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #dd5040 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #dd5040: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #dd5040 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #dd5040: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #dd5040 in 5 real palettes, including Ember and Wired's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped10 real palettes, including Glossier's brand system and Doordash's brand system put Blue beside #dd5040, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #dd5040 in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #dd5040: 16 real palettes, including Postman's brand system and PlanetScale's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #dd5040
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #dd5040 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.97:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.3:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #dd5040 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
#dd5040 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #dd5040 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/dd5040-c4a59c-62cba3-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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