Golden Hour
Open in tool →Apricot into coral into plum — a sunset flattened to three tokens, with the plum doubling as the twilight text colour.
Color
#ea6861
#ea6861
hex
#ea6861rgb
rgb(234, 104, 97)hsl
hsl(3, 77%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.675 0.163 25.5)Closest name: Camellia (#f6685a)Relative luminance 0.2826
Colors that go with #ea6861
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Amber 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #ea6861 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ea6861: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ea6861 in 7 real palettes, including Ember and Beach Hut, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside #ea6861, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ea6861 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #ea6861: 4 real palettes, including Cobalt Pop and NASA's brand system, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ea6861 in 9 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Redfin's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ea6861: 14 real palettes, including Postman's brand system and Etsy's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #ea6861
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ea6861 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.16:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.65:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ea6861 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
#ea6861 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ea6861
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 #ea6861 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ea6861-c4a39c-62cb9d-2d261f-f1e9ed?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