Color
#dd9cb4
#dd9cb4rgb(221, 156, 180)hsl(338, 49%, 74%)oklch(0.762 0.083 355.4)Colors that go with #dd9cb4
Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Champagne 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #dd9cb4: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryshippedDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #dd9cb4 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #dd9cb4, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #dd9cb4: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #dd9cb4 in 4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Emerald Green #50c878
split-complementshippedEmerald Green is a split-complement of #dd9cb4: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Railway's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #dd9cb4, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #dd9cb4: 7 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #dd9cb4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #dd9cb4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.21:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.49:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #dd9cb4 as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#dd9cb4 reads as warm, light, clean. 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 #dd9cb4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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