Beach Hut
Open in tool →Sea blue with sun-bleached yellow and a coral — striped-canvas summer, softened so it works on a screen.
Color
#f2828e
#f2828e
hex
#f2828ergb
rgb(242, 130, 142)hsl
hsl(354, 81%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.734 0.137 14.3)Closest name: lightcoral (#f08080)Relative luminance 0.368
Colors that go with #f2828e
Charcoal, Light Sea Green and Cornflower 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 #f2828e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #f2828e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #f2828e — 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 #f2828e in 4 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #f2828e: 4 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Postman's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Lavender Haze put Midnight Blue beside #f2828e, as the accent.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped5 real palettes, including Meadow and Lido put Mustard Yellow beside #f2828e, as the supporting colour.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #f2828e in 4 real palettes, including Substack's brand system and Reddit's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #f2828e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f2828e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.51:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.36:1 | 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 #f2828e as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f2828e reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f2828e
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 #f2828e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f2828e-c49d9c-62cb8e-2d241f-f1e9ee?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