Color

#ec9879

#ec9879
hex#ec9879
rgbrgb(236, 152, 121)
hslhsl(16, 75%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.758 0.11 41)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.4167

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#79cdec

#ec7994 · #ecd179

#79ec98 · #9879ec

Split-complementary

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#79ecd1 · #7994ec

#94ec79 · #79cdec · #d179ec

Contrast

#ec9879 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.25:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #cd4c1d as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #983816 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
9.33:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ec9879 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

#ec9879 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec9879
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #ec9879 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec9879-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md