Color

#ed986e

#ed986e
hex#ed986e
rgbrgb(237, 152, 110)
hslhsl(20, 78%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.757 0.117 46.7)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.4159

Colors that go with #ed986e

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 #ed986e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6ec3ed

#ed6e83 · #edd86e

#6eed98 · #986eed

Split-complementary

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#6eedd8 · #6e83ed

#83ed6e · #6ec3ed · #d86eed

Contrast

#ed986e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.25:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c35118 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #963e13 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
9.32:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ed986e 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

#ed986e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ed986e
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 #ed986e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ed986e-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md