Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#ef8c76
#ef8c76
hex
#ef8c76rgb
rgb(239, 140, 118)hsl
hsl(11, 79%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.74 0.125 33.4)Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.3841
Colors that go with #ef8c76
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Emerald 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.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #ef8c76 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Emerald Green #50c878
triadicshippedEmerald Green completes a triad with #ef8c76 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryshippedDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #ef8c76 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 #ef8c76 in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Ahrefs's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #ef8c76, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ef8c76 in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ef8c76: 6 real palettes, including Alpine and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ef8c76
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ef8c76 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.42:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.68:1 | 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 #ef8c76 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
#ef8c76 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ef8c76
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 #ef8c76 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ef8c76-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-f1e9ec?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