Polaroid
Open in tool →Washed coral, faded aqua and a mustard — the 1970s film look, desaturated so it feels found rather than designed.
Color
#df957c
#df957c
hex
#df957crgb
rgb(223, 149, 124)hsl
hsl(15, 61%, 68%)oklch
oklch(0.738 0.097 39.4)Closest name: Blushing Rose (#e09b81)Relative luminance 0.3864
Colors that go with #df957c
Charcoal, Dark Turquoise 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #df957c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryshippedDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #df957c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #df957c in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Ahrefs's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #df957c: 6 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Alpine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble put Champagne beside #df957c, as that palette's text colour.
Chocolate #d2691e
shippedChocolate shows up next to #df957c in 4 real palettes, including Postman's brand system and Wellness, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #df957c: 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #df957c in 6 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #df957c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #df957c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.41:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.73:1 | 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 #df957c 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
#df957c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #df957c
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 #df957c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/df957c-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?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