Beach Hut
Open in tool →Sea blue with sun-bleached yellow and a coral — striped-canvas summer, softened so it works on a screen.
Color
#ef8681
#ef8681
hex
#ef8681rgb
rgb(239, 134, 129)hsl
hsl(3, 77%, 72%)oklch
oklch(0.733 0.129 23.6)Closest name: lightcoral (#f08080)Relative luminance 0.3699
Colors that go with #ef8681
Charcoal, Dark Turquoise and Burlywood 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.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryshippedDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #ef8681 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ef8681 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #ef8681 in 5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Forest Floor, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #ef8681 in 4 real palettes, including Postman's brand system and Dusk, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #ef8681 in 4 real palettes, including Spline's brand system and Playground, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #ef8681 in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Darkroom, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #ef8681
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ef8681 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.5:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.4:1 | 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 #ef8681 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
#ef8681 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ef8681
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 #ef8681 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ef8681-c4a39c-62cb9d-2d261f-f1e9ed?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