Color

#e8988c

#e8988c
hex#e8988c
rgbrgb(232, 152, 140)
hslhsl(8, 67%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.757 0.099 28.9)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.4151

Colors that go with #e8988c

Charcoal, Emerald Green and Dark Turquoise 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 #e8988c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8cdce8

#e88cae · #e8c68c

#8ce898 · #988ce8

Split-complementary

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#8ce8c6 · #8caee8

#aee88c · #8cdce8 · #c68ce8

Contrast

#e8988c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.26:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d5412a as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #a23120 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
9.3:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e8988c 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

#e8988c reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e8988c
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 #e8988c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e8988c-c4a69c-62cba6-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md