Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#ec886a
#ec886a
hex
#ec886argb
rgb(236, 136, 106)hsl
hsl(14, 77%, 67%)oklch
oklch(0.728 0.13 37.5)Closest name: Bonfire (#f78058)Relative luminance 0.3648
Colors that go with #ec886a
Charcoal, Cornflower 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ec886a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #ec886a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #ec886a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Emerald Green #50c878
triadicshippedEmerald Green completes a triad with #ec886a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #ec886a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ec886a in 5 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Maple, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #ec886a in 5 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and League of Legends's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ec886a in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #ec886a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ec886a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.53:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.3:1 | 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 #ec886a 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
Fonts for this mood
#ec886a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec886a
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 #ec886a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ec886a-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?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