Tide Pool
Open in tool →Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
Named color
Atomic Tangerine
#ff9966
hex
#ff9966rgb
rgb(255, 153, 102)hsl
hsl(20, 100%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.779 0.139 46.6)Relative luminance 0.45
Atomic Tangerine on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
Colors that go with Atomic Tangerine
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and 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 Atomic Tangerine: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite Atomic Tangerine on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside Atomic Tangerine, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with Atomic Tangerine: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble put Champagne beside Atomic Tangerine, as that palette's text colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with Atomic Tangerine: 5 real palettes, including Webflow's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with Atomic Tangerine in 6 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Burger King's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with Atomic Tangerine: 10 real palettes, including Amazon's brand system and Campus, as the accent.
Real palettes that use Atomic Tangerine
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Atomic Tangerine as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.1:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10:1 | 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 Atomic Tangerine 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
Atomic Tangerine reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around Atomic Tangerine
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 #ff9966 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ff9966-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?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