Color

#de8159

#de8159
hex#de8159
rgbrgb(222, 129, 89)
hslhsl(18, 67%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.696 0.127 43.5)
Closest name: Terracotta (#e2725b)Relative luminance 0.3195

Colors that go with #de8159

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.

Real palettes that use #de8159

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#59b6de

#de5974 · #dec459

#59de81 · #8159de

Split-complementary

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#59dec4 · #5974de

#74de59 · #59b6de · #c459de

Contrast

#de8159 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.84:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c05426 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #913f1d as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.39:1passpasspassPasses 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 #de8159 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

#de8159 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #de8159
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 #de8159 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/de8159-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md