Color
#de6262
#de6262rgb(222, 98, 98)hsl(0, 65%, 63%)oklch(0.65 0.156 22.4)Colors that go with #de6262
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
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #de6262 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #de6262: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #de6262 in 8 real palettes, including Google's brand system and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped9 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Glossier's brand system put Blue beside #de6262, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #de6262 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #de6262: 4 real palettes, including NASA's brand system and Cobalt Pop, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #de6262 in 9 real palettes, including Redfin's brand system and Snyk's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #de6262: 15 real palettes, including Postman's brand system and PlanetScale's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #de6262
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #de6262 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.48:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.03:1 | 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 #de6262 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
#de6262 reads as warm, vivid, playful. 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 #de6262 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/de6262-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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