Retro Pop
Open in tool →Fifties-diner red and steel blue with a peach — nostalgic pop that still passes contrast.
Color
#ec2745
#ec2745
hex
#ec2745rgb
rgb(236, 39, 69)hsl
hsl(351, 84%, 54%)oklch
oklch(0.61 0.226 20.4)Closest name: Barberry (#ee1133)Relative luminance 0.1971
Colors that go with #ec2745
Amber, Charcoal and Gold 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 #ec2745: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold is paired with #ec2745 in 6 real palettes, including Tequila Sunrise and Tabloid, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
complementaryDark Cyan sits directly opposite #ec2745 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #ec2745: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #ec2745: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #ec2745 in 3 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Fireside, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #ec2745 in 3 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Trailhead, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #ec2745
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ec2745 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.25:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.94:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ec2745 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Diner
Open in tool →Cherry red, mint-teal and butter yellow — chrome-and-vinyl retro; the red does the work, the teal cools it.
Frost & Ember
Open in tool →Navy and frost with one ember red — the classic cold-with-a-warm-accent structure, borrowed from a thousand ski posters.
Tequila Sunrise
Open in tool →Red through orange to yellow — the poured-drink gradient as flat tokens; use it left-to-right, never all at once.
Fonts for this mood
#ec2745 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec2745
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #ec2745 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ec2745-c49c9e-62cb89-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md