Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#ee8f6d
#ee8f6d
hex
#ee8f6drgb
rgb(238, 143, 109)hsl
hsl(16, 79%, 68%)oklch
oklch(0.742 0.125 40.3)Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.3893
Colors that go with #ee8f6d
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 #ee8f6d: 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 #ee8f6d — 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 #ee8f6d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ee8f6d in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Ahrefs's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #ee8f6d, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ee8f6d: 6 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Alpine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #ee8f6d, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ee8f6d: 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #ee8f6d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ee8f6d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.39:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.79:1 | 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 #ee8f6d 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
#ee8f6d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ee8f6d
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 #ee8f6d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ee8f6d-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-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