Color

#ea986c

#ea986c
hex#ea986c
rgbrgb(234, 152, 108)
hslhsl(21, 75%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.753 0.115 48.6)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.4103

Colors that go with #ea986c

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 #ea986c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6cbeea

#ea6c7f · #ead76c

#6cea98 · #986cea

Split-complementary

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#6cead7 · #6c7fea

#7fea6c · #6cbeea · #d76cea

Contrast

#ea986c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c0551b as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #8f3f14 as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
9.21:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ea986c 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

#ea986c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ea986c
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 #ea986c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ea986c-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md