Color
#ef85a7
#ef85a7rgb(239, 133, 167)hsl(341, 77%, 73%)oklch(0.741 0.134 0.4)Colors that go with #ef85a7
Charcoal, Midnight Blue and Sage Green 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 #ef85a7: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Casper Sleep's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #ef85a7, as the text colour against it.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #ef85a7: 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the supporting colour.
Medium Aquamarine #66cdaa
complementaryMedium Aquamarine sits directly opposite #ef85a7 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Emerald Green #50c878
split-complementshippedEmerald Green is a split-complement of #ef85a7: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
split-complementshippedDark Turquoise is a split-complement of #ef85a7: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Sky Blue #87cefa
shippedLight Sky Blue is paired with #ef85a7 in 3 real palettes, including Mercury's brand system and Sentry's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ef85a7
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ef85a7 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.45:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.58:1 | 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 #ef85a7 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
#ef85a7 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ef85a7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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