Polaroid
Open in tool →Washed coral, faded aqua and a mustard — the 1970s film look, desaturated so it feels found rather than designed.
Color
#de9487
#de9487
hex
#de9487rgb
rgb(222, 148, 135)hsl
hsl(9, 57%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.737 0.092 30.4)Closest name: Blushing Rose (#e09b81)Relative luminance 0.3846
Colors that go with #de9487
Charcoal, Light Sea Green and Cadet 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 #de9487: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #de9487 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #de9487: 6 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Alpine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #de9487, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #de9487: 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #de9487 in 6 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #de9487 in 4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #de9487: 8 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Guinness's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #de9487
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #de9487 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.42:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.69:1 | 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 #de9487 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
#de9487 reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #de9487
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 #de9487 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/de9487-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?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