Color

#e5a585

#e5a585
hex#e5a585
rgbrgb(229, 165, 133)
hslhsl(20, 65%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.775 0.088 47.5)
Closest name: Apricotta (#d8a48f)Relative luminance 0.4526

Colors that go with #e5a585

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#85c5e5

#e58595 · #e5d585

#85e5a5 · #a585e5

Split-complementary

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#85e5d5 · #8595e5

#95e585 · #85c5e5 · #d585e5

Contrast

#e5a585 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.09:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #bd5a28 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #8b421d as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.24:1)
Aaon black
10.05:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e5a585 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

#e5a585 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e5a585
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 #e5a585 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e5a585-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md