Color

#ec9665

#ec9665
hex#ec9665
rgbrgb(236, 150, 101)
hslhsl(22, 78%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.751 0.122 49.8)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.4059

Colors that go with #ec9665

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cadet 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.

Real palettes that use #ec9665

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#65baec

#ec6577 · #ecda65

#65ec96 · #9665ec

Split-complementary

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#65ecda · #6577ec

#77ec65 · #65baec · #da65ec

Contrast

#ec9665 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #bf5518 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #914112 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.16:1)
Aaon black
9.12:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ec9665 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

#ec9665 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec9665
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 #ec9665 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec9665-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md