Color
#ea8161
#ea8161rgb(234, 129, 97)hsl(14, 77%, 65%)oklch(0.712 0.137 37.7)Colors that go with #ea8161
Charcoal, Light Sea Green 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ea8161: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #ea8161 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 #ea8161 in 5 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Maple, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #ea8161, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ea8161 in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ea8161: 5 real palettes, including Alpine and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #ea8161, as that palette's text colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #ea8161: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #ea8161
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ea8161 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.69:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.81:1 | 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 #ea8161 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
#ea8161 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ea8161 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ea8161-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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