Newsprint
Open in tool →Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Color
#dd720e
#dd720e
hex
#dd720ergb
rgb(221, 114, 14)hsl
hsl(29, 88%, 46%)oklch
oklch(0.663 0.163 54)Closest name: Ochre (#cc7722)Relative luminance 0.2744
Colors that go with #dd720e
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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementshippedCadet Blue is a split-complement of #dd720e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #dd720e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #dd720e in 4 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Readymag's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #dd720e in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #dd720e in 4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #dd720e in 5 real palettes, including Cider and Farmers Market, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #dd720e in 6 real palettes, including Dusk and PlanetScale's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #dd720e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #dd720e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.24:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.49:1 | 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 #dd720e as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#dd720e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #dd720e
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #dd720e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/dd720e-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md