Color

#dd5f61

#dd5f61
hex#dd5f61
rgbrgb(221, 95, 97)
hslhsl(359, 65%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.644 0.158 21.7)
Closest name: Aphrodisiac (#e35a63)Relative luminance 0.2442

Colors that go with #dd5f61

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.

Real palettes that use #dd5f61

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5fdddb

#dd5fa0 · #dd9c5f

#61dd5f · #5f61dd

Split-complementary

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#5fdd9c · #5fa0dd

#a0dd5f · #5fdddb · #9c5fdd

Contrast

#dd5f61 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.57:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #d63d40 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #a82426 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
5.88:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #e2787a as the text (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #dd5f61 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

#dd5f61 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dd5f61
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 #dd5f61 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dd5f61-c4a09c-62cb96-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md