Color

#e8966d

#e8966d
hex#e8966d
rgbrgb(232, 150, 109)
hslhsl(20, 73%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.747 0.114 47)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.4007

Colors that go with #e8966d

Charcoal, Light Sky Blue and Deep Sky 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.

Real palettes that use #e8966d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6dbfe8

#e86d82 · #e8d46d

#6de896 · #966de8

Split-complementary

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#6de8d4 · #6d82e8

#82e86d · #6dbfe8 · #d46de8

Contrast

#e8966d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c2551e as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #924017 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.08:1)
Aaon black
9.01:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e8966d 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

#e8966d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e8966d
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 #e8966d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e8966d-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md