Color

#ec978d

#ec978d
hex#ec978d
rgbrgb(236, 151, 141)
hslhsl(6, 71%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.76 0.104 27.1)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.4189

Colors that go with #ec978d

Charcoal, Dark Turquoise 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 #ec978d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8ee2ec

#ec8eb3 · #ecc68e

#8eec97 · #978eec

Split-complementary

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#8eecc6 · #8eb3ec

#b3ec8e · #8ee2ec · #c68eec

Contrast

#ec978d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.24:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #da3725 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #a62a1c as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.19:1)
Aaon black
9.38:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ec978d 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

#ec978d reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec978d
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 #ec978d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec978d-c4a59c-62cba3-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md