Color

#ee9972

#ee9972
hex#ee9972
rgbrgb(238, 153, 114)
hslhsl(19, 78%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.76 0.115 45.2)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.4217

Colors that go with #ee9972

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 #ee9972

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#72c7ee

#ee7289 · #eed772

#72ee99 · #9972ee

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#72eed7 · #7289ee

#89ee72 · #72c7ee · #d772ee

Contrast

#ee9972 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.23:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c85019 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #963c13 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.23:1)
Aaon black
9.43:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ee9972 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

#ee9972 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ee9972
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 #ee9972 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ee9972-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md