Color

#dd6840

#dd6840
hex#dd6840
rgbrgb(221, 104, 64)
hslhsl(15, 70%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.652 0.157 39.1)
Closest name: Basketball (#ee6730)Relative luminance 0.2564

Colors that go with #dd6840

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 →

#40b6dd

#dd4068 · #ddb640

#40dd68 · #6840dd

Split-complementary

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#40ddb6 · #4068dd

#68dd40 · #40b6dd · #b640dd

Contrast

#dd6840 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.43:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #c74c23 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #983a1b as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.53:1)
Aaon black
6.13:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #e17956 as the text (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #dd6840 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

#dd6840 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dd6840
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 #dd6840 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dd6840-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md