Color

#ef9561

#ef9561
hex#ef9561
rgbrgb(239, 149, 97)
hslhsl(22, 82%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.752 0.128 49.9)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.4071

Colors that go with #ef9561

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Amber 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 #ef9561

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#61bbef

#ef6174 · #efdc61

#61ef95 · #9561ef

Split-complementary

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#61efdc · #6174ef

#74ef61 · #61bbef · #dc61ef

Contrast

#ef9561 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c35413 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #903e0e as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
9.14:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ef9561 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

#ef9561 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ef9561
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 #ef9561 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ef9561-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md