Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#f28a5a
#f28a5a
hex
#f28a5argb
rgb(242, 138, 90)hsl
hsl(19, 85%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.736 0.142 44.7)Closest name: Bonfire (#f78058)Relative luminance 0.3779
Colors that go with #f28a5a
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Emerald 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #f28a5a: 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 #f28a5a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Emerald Green #50c878
triadicshippedEmerald Green completes a triad with #f28a5a — 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 #f28a5a in 5 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Beach Hut, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #f28a5a, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #f28a5a in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #f28a5a: 5 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Alpine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #f28a5a, as that palette's text colour.
Real palettes that use #f28a5a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f28a5a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.45:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.56:1 | 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 #f28a5a 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
#f28a5a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f28a5a
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 #f28a5a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f28a5a-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-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