Color

#f3a581

#f3a581
hex#f3a581
rgbrgb(243, 165, 129)
hslhsl(19, 83%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.79 0.105 45.5)
Closest name: lightsalmon (#ffa07a)Relative luminance 0.4755

Colors that go with #f3a581

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#81cff3

#f38196 · #f3de81

#81f3a5 · #a581f3

Split-complementary

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#81f3de · #8196f3

#96f381 · #81cff3 · #de81f3

Contrast

#f3a581 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c94c13 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #95390e as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.09:1)
Aaon black
10.51:1passpasspassPasses 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 #f3a581 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

#f3a581 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #f3a581
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 #f3a581 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/f3a581-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md