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
#f5666argb(245, 102, 106)hsl(358, 88%, 68%)oklch(0.69 0.176 21.2)Charcoal, Light Sea Green 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 is the body-text near-black for #f5666a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Light Sea Green sits directly opposite #f5666a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber is paired with #f5666a in 5 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Ember, as the supporting colour.
7 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside #f5666a, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #f5666a: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Diner, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #f5666a: 5 real palettes, including Cobalt Pop and NASA's brand system, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue is a split-complement of #f5666a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson is paired with #f5666a in 7 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Snyk's brand system, as the lead colour.
| #f5666a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.99:1 | 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 #f5666a as the background.
#f5666a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #f5666a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/f5666a-c49f9c-62cb95-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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