Color

#f39281

#f39281
hex#f39281
rgbrgb(243, 146, 129)
hslhsl(9, 83%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.757 0.121 30.7)
Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.412

Colors that go with #f39281

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Dark Turquoise 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.

Real palettes that use #f39281

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#81e2f3

#f381a9 · #f3cb81

#81f392 · #9281f3

Split-complementary

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#81f3cb · #81a9f3

#a9f381 · #81e2f3 · #cb81f3

Contrast

#f39281 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.27:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e03315 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #a82610 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
9.24:1passpasspassPasses 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 #f39281 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#f39281 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #f39281
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #f39281 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/f39281-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md