Color

#dd555e

#dd555e
hex#dd555e
rgbrgb(221, 85, 94)
hslhsl(356, 67%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.631 0.17 19.5)
Closest name: Aphrodisiac (#e35a63)Relative luminance 0.2268

Colors that go with #dd555e

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Amber 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 →

#55ddd4

#dd55a2 · #dd9055

#5edd55 · #555edd

Split-complementary

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#55dd90 · #55a2dd

#a2dd55 · #55ddd4 · #9055dd

Contrast

#dd555e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.79:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #d83b46 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #aa222b as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (4.59:1)
Aaon black
5.54:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #e4777e as the text (7.24:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #dd555e 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

#dd555e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dd555e
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 #dd555e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dd555e-c49e9c-62cb91-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md