Color
#ec9e9d
#ec9e9drgb(236, 158, 157)hsl(1, 68%, 77%)oklch(0.776 0.094 20.2)Colors that go with #ec9e9d
Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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 #ec9e9d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ec9e9d: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Estate, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #ec9e9d, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ec9e9d: 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Desert Road, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ec9e9d in 5 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #ec9e9d in 5 real palettes, including Blush and Bramble, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #ec9e9d in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #ec9e9d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #ec9e9d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ec9e9d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.11:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.94:1 | 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 #ec9e9d as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#ec9e9d 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 #ec9e9d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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