Color

#ea9d81

#ea9d81
hex#ea9d81
rgbrgb(234, 157, 129)
hslhsl(16, 71%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.766 0.101 40.8)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.4319

Colors that go with #ea9d81

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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 #ea9d81

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#81ceea

#ea8199 · #ead181

#81ea9d · #9d81ea

Split-complementary

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#81ead1 · #8199ea

#99ea81 · #81ceea · #d181ea

Contrast

#ea9d81 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.18:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c94e22 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #943a19 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
9.64:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ea9d81 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

#ea9d81 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ea9d81
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 #ea9d81 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ea9d81-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md