Color

#ea9976

#ea9976
hex#ea9976
rgbrgb(234, 153, 118)
hslhsl(18, 73%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.756 0.109 44.1)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.4158

Colors that go with #ea9976

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 #ea9976

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#76c7ea

#ea768d · #ead376

#76ea99 · #9976ea

Split-complementary

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#76ead3 · #768dea

#8dea76 · #76c7ea · #d376ea

Contrast

#ea9976 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.25:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c7511f as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #963d17 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
9.32:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ea9976 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

#ea9976 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ea9976
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 #ea9976 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ea9976-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md