Polaroid
Open in tool →Washed coral, faded aqua and a mustard — the 1970s film look, desaturated so it feels found rather than designed.
Color
#e18e6b
#e18e6b
hex
#e18e6brgb
rgb(225, 142, 107)hsl
hsl(18, 66%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.725 0.112 43.5)Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.3642
Colors that go with #e18e6b
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Light Sea Green 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 #e18e6b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #e18e6b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #e18e6b 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 #e18e6b in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Maple, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #e18e6b: 6 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Alpine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #e18e6b, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #e18e6b: 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #e18e6b in 5 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Burger King's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #e18e6b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e18e6b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.54:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.28:1 | 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 #e18e6b 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
#e18e6b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e18e6b
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 #e18e6b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e18e6b-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-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