Color

#ec9a74

#ec9a74
hex#ec9a74
rgbrgb(236, 154, 116)
hslhsl(19, 76%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.76 0.112 45.5)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.4221

Colors that go with #ec9a74

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 #ec9a74

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#74c6ec

#ec748a · #ecd674

#74ec9a · #9a74ec

Split-complementary

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#74ecd6 · #748aec

#8aec74 · #74c6ec · #d674ec

Contrast

#ec9a74 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.22:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c5511b as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #943d14 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.24:1)
Aaon black
9.44:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ec9a74 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

#ec9a74 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec9a74
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 #ec9a74 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec9a74-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md