Color

#de9e96

#de9e96
hex#de9e96
rgbrgb(222, 158, 150)
hslhsl(7, 52%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.759 0.078 27)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4219

Colors that go with #de9e96

Charcoal, Emerald 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.

Real palettes that use #de9e96

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96d6de

#de96b2 · #dec396

#96de9f · #9f96de

Split-complementary

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#96dec3 · #96b2de

#b2de96 · #96d6de · #c396de

Contrast

#de9e96 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.23:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c35041 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #933a2f as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.24:1)
Aaon black
9.44:1passpasspassPasses 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 #de9e96 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

#de9e96 reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #de9e96
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 #de9e96 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/de9e96-c4a59c-62cba4-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md