Color

#ea9457

#ea9457
hex#ea9457
rgbrgb(234, 148, 87)
hslhsl(25, 78%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.743 0.129 54.6)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.3936

Colors that go with #ea9457

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cadet 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 #ea9457

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#57adea

#ea5763 · #eade57

#57ea94 · #9457ea

Split-complementary

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#57eade · #5763ea

#63ea57 · #57adea · #de57ea

Contrast

#ea9457 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.37:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ba5b17 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #8d4511 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.2:1)
Aaon black
8.87:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ea9457 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

#ea9457 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ea9457
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 #ea9457 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ea9457-c4b19c-62cbc4-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md