Dusty Blue
Open in tool →Dusty blue and mist with a nude accent — the quiet wedding palette; nothing here competes with a photograph.
Color
#ddb99c
#ddb99c
hex
#ddb99crgb
rgb(221, 185, 156)hsl
hsl(27, 49%, 74%)oklch
oklch(0.81 0.057 60.7)Closest name: Baker’s Dozen (#ceb997)Relative luminance 0.5247
Colors that go with #ddb99c
Charcoal, Lilac and Sky Blue 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 #ddb99c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #ddb99c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
complementaryshippedSky Blue sits directly opposite #ddb99c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including League of Legends's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #ddb99c, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ddb99c: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Estate, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Bramble put Champagne beside #ddb99c, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ddb99c: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clean Beauty, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ddb99c in 6 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #ddb99c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ddb99c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.83:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.49:1 | 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 #ddb99c 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
#ddb99c reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ddb99c
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 #ddb99c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ddb99c-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?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