Color

#dd9e97

#dd9e97
hex#dd9e97
rgbrgb(221, 158, 151)
hslhsl(6, 51%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.758 0.076 26.1)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4206

Colors that go with #dd9e97

Charcoal, Cadet Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #dd9e97

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97d6dd

#dd97b3 · #ddc197

#97dd9e · #9e97dd

Split-complementary

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#97ddc1 · #97b3dd

#b3dd97 · #97d6dd · #c197dd

Contrast

#dd9e97 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.23:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c35346 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #963b31 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.22:1)
Aaon black
9.41:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dd9e97 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

#dd9e97 reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dd9e97
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 #dd9e97 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dd9e97-c4a59c-62cba3-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md