Color

#ec8d7e

#ec8d7e
hex#ec8d7e
rgbrgb(236, 141, 126)
hslhsl(8, 74%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.74 0.119 29.8)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.3839

Colors that go with #ec8d7e

Charcoal, Dark Turquoise and Burlywood 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 #ec8d7e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7eddec

#ec7ea6 · #ecc47e

#7eec8d · #8d7eec

Split-complementary

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#7eecc4 · #7ea6ec

#a6ec7e · #7eddec · #c47eec

Contrast

#ec8d7e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d93920 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #a42b19 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.04:1)
Aaon black
8.68:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ec8d7e 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

#ec8d7e reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec8d7e
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 #ec8d7e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec8d7e-c4a69c-62cba6-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md