Color

#ef9581

#ef9581
hex#ef9581
rgbrgb(239, 149, 129)
hslhsl(11, 77%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.757 0.113 33.3)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.4143

Colors that go with #ef9581

Charcoal, Emerald Green and Dark Turquoise 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 #ef9581

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#81daef

#ef81a3 · #efcc81

#81ef95 · #9581ef

Split-complementary

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#81efcc · #81a3ef

#a3ef81 · #81daef · #cc81ef

Contrast

#ef9581 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.26:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d43d1c as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #a22f15 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
9.29:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ef9581 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

#ef9581 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ef9581
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 #ef9581 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ef9581-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md