Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#ee8d6d
#ee8d6d
hex
#ee8d6drgb
rgb(238, 141, 109)hsl
hsl(15, 79%, 68%)oklch
oklch(0.739 0.127 39)Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.3833
Colors that go with #ee8d6d
Charcoal, Emerald Green and Deep Sky 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ee8d6d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Emerald Green #50c878
triadicshippedEmerald Green completes a triad with #ee8d6d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #ee8d6d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #ee8d6d in 4 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Lexus's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ee8d6d in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #ee8d6d in 6 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Alpine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #ee8d6d in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #ee8d6d in 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #ee8d6d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ee8d6d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.42:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.67:1 | 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 #ee8d6d as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#ee8d6d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ee8d6d
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #ee8d6d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ee8d6d-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md