Golden Hour
Open in tool →Apricot into coral into plum — a sunset flattened to three tokens, with the plum doubling as the twilight text colour.
Color
#f45d69
#f45d69
hex
#f45d69rgb
rgb(244, 93, 105)hsl
hsl(355, 87%, 66%)oklch
oklch(0.678 0.185 18.9)Closest name: Amour (#ee5851)Relative luminance 0.2808
Colors that go with #f45d69
Charcoal, Medium Sea Green and Light Sea 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 #f45d69: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #f45d69: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #f45d69 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #f45d69 in 7 real palettes, including Google's brand system and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #f45d69, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementshippedCadet Blue is a split-complement of #f45d69: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #f45d69: 4 real palettes, including Cobalt Pop and NASA's brand system, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #f45d69 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #f45d69
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f45d69 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.17:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.62:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #f45d69 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
#f45d69 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f45d69
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 #f45d69 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f45d69-c49e9c-62cb8f-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