Color
#ec958e
#ec958ergb(236, 149, 142)hsl(4, 71%, 74%)oklch(0.757 0.106 24.9)Colors that go with #ec958e
Charcoal, Emerald Green and Light 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 #ec958e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Emerald Green #50c878
triadicshippedEmerald Green completes a triad with #ec958e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Light Sky Blue #87cefa
triadicshippedLight Sky Blue completes a triad with #ec958e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryshippedDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #ec958e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #ec958e, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ec958e: 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ec958e in 6 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ec958e: 5 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Postman's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #ec958e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ec958e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.27:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.26:1 | 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 #ec958e 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
#ec958e reads as warm, vivid, light. 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 #ec958e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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