Color
#ec7474
#ec7474rgb(236, 116, 116)hsl(0, 76%, 69%)oklch(0.699 0.149 21.6)Colors that go with #ec7474
Charcoal, Light Sea Green and Amber 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 #ec7474: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #ec7474 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #ec7474, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ec7474 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ec7474: 5 real palettes, including Alpine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #ec7474 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ec7474 in 7 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Burger King's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ec7474
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ec7474 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.32:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #ec7474 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
#ec7474 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ec7474 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ec7474-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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