Color

#ef816b

#ef816b
hex#ef816b
rgbrgb(239, 129, 107)
hslhsl(10, 80%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.721 0.14 32.5)
Closest name: salmon (#fa8072)Relative luminance 0.3511

Colors that go with #ef816b

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #ef816b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#6cd9ef

#ef6c98 · #efc36c

#6cef82 · #826cef

Split-complementary

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#6cefc3 · #6c98ef

#98ef6c · #6cd9ef · #c36cef

Contrast

#ef816b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #dc3918 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #a52b12 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
8.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ef816b 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

#ef816b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ef816b
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 #ef816b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ef816b-c4a79c-62cbaa-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md