Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#f18665
#f18665
hex
#f18665rgb
rgb(241, 134, 101)hsl
hsl(14, 83%, 67%)oklch
oklch(0.73 0.139 37.9)Closest name: Bonfire (#f78058)Relative luminance 0.3669
Colors that go with #f18665
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep Sky 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.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #f18665 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #f18665 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #f18665 in 5 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Ahrefs's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #f18665, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #f18665 in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #f18665: 5 real palettes, including Alpine and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #f18665, as that palette's text colour.
Real palettes that use #f18665
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f18665 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.52:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.34:1 | 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 #f18665 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
#f18665 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f18665
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 #f18665 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f18665-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-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