Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#f3a596
#f3a596
hex
#f3a596rgb
rgb(243, 165, 150)hsl
hsl(10, 79%, 77%)oklch
oklch(0.794 0.096 31.3)Closest name: Calabrese (#f4a6a3)Relative luminance 0.4817
Colors that go with #f3a596
Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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 #f3a596: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #f3a596: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Estate, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #f3a596, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #f3a596: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f3a596 in 5 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #f3a596 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #f3a596: 6 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Victoria's Secret's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #f3a596 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #f3a596
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f3a596 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.97:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.63:1 | 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 #f3a596 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f3a596 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f3a596
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 #f3a596 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f3a596-c4a79c-62cbaa-2d281f-f1e9ec?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