Polaroid
Open in tool →Washed coral, faded aqua and a mustard — the 1970s film look, desaturated so it feels found rather than designed.
Color
#e2896e
#e2896e
hex
#e2896ergb
rgb(226, 137, 110)hsl
hsl(14, 67%, 66%)oklch
oklch(0.718 0.116 37.7)Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.3519
Colors that go with #e2896e
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 #e2896e: 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 #e2896e: 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 #e2896e 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 #e2896e in 5 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Maple, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #e2896e in 5 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Lexus's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #e2896e in 4 real palettes, including Blush and Garden Wedding, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #e2896e in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #e2896e in 6 real palettes, including Alpine and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #e2896e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e2896e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.61:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.04:1 | 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 #e2896e 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
#e2896e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e2896e
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 #e2896e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e2896e-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-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