Golden Hour
Open in tool →Apricot into coral into plum — a sunset flattened to three tokens, with the plum doubling as the twilight text colour.
Color
#ed5e65
#ed5e65
hex
#ed5e65rgb
rgb(237, 94, 101)hsl
hsl(357, 80%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.667 0.177 20.4)Closest name: Aphrodisiac (#e35a63)Relative luminance 0.2695
Colors that go with #ed5e65
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Medium Sea Green 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #ed5e65 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ed5e65: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
triadicshippedMedium Sea Green completes a triad with #ed5e65 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ed5e65 in 7 real palettes, including Google's brand system and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped8 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Glossier's brand system put Blue beside #ed5e65, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #ed5e65: 4 real palettes, including NASA's brand system and Cobalt Pop, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #ed5e65 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ed5e65 in 8 real palettes, including Redfin's brand system and Snyk's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ed5e65
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ed5e65 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.29:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.39:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ed5e65 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
#ed5e65 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ed5e65
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 #ed5e65 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ed5e65-c49f9c-62cb93-2d251f-f1e9ed?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