Color

#ef9e85

#ef9e85
hex#ef9e85
rgbrgb(239, 158, 133)
hslhsl(14, 77%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.774 0.104 37.9)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.445

Colors that go with #ef9e85

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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 #ef9e85

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#85d6ef

#ef85a1 · #efd385

#85ef9e · #9e85ef

Split-complementary

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#85efd3 · #85a1ef

#a1ef85 · #85d6ef · #d385ef

Contrast

#ef9e85 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.12:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d0451b as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #9e3515 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
9.9:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ef9e85 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

#ef9e85 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ef9e85
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 #ef9e85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ef9e85-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md