Color
#ef9680
#ef9680rgb(239, 150, 128)hsl(12, 78%, 72%)oklch(0.759 0.113 34.6)Colors that go with #ef9680
Charcoal, Dark Turquoise and Cadet Blue 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 #ef9680: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryshippedDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #ef9680 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #ef9680 in 5 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Alpine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #ef9680 in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #ef9680 in 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ef9680 in 5 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Retro Pop, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #ef9680 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #ef9680 in 8 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Postman's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #ef9680
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ef9680 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.25:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.34:1 | 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 #ef9680 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
#ef9680 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 #ef9680 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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