Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#f49176
#f49176
hex
#f49176rgb
rgb(244, 145, 118)hsl
hsl(13, 85%, 71%)oklch
oklch(0.755 0.127 36.1)Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.4079
Colors that go with #f49176
Charcoal, Dark Turquoise and Amber 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 #f49176: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryshippedDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #f49176 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 #f49176 in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Ahrefs's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #f49176: 5 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Alpine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #f49176, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #f49176: 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f49176 in 6 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #f49176: 10 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Postman's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #f49176
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f49176 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.29:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.16:1 | 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 #f49176 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
#f49176 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f49176
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 #f49176 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f49176-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-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