Polaroid
Open in tool →Washed coral, faded aqua and a mustard — the 1970s film look, desaturated so it feels found rather than designed.
Color
#e78d79
#e78d79
hex
#e78d79rgb
rgb(231, 141, 121)hsl
hsl(11, 70%, 69%)oklch
oklch(0.733 0.114 33.3)Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.3742
Colors that go with #e78d79
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Emerald 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 #e78d79: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #e78d79 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Emerald Green #50c878
triadicshippedEmerald Green completes a triad with #e78d79 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #e78d79 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 #e78d79 in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Ahrefs's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #e78d79, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #e78d79 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #e78d79: 6 real palettes, including Alpine and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #e78d79
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e78d79 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.48:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.48:1 | 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 #e78d79 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
#e78d79 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e78d79
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 #e78d79 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e78d79-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-f1e9ec?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