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
#f5685b
#f5685b
hex
#f5685brgb
rgb(245, 104, 91)hsl
hsl(5, 89%, 66%)oklch
oklch(0.69 0.176 27.8)Closest name: Camellia (#f6685a)Relative luminance 0.3007
Colors that go with #f5685b
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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #f5685b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #f5685b 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 #f5685b in 6 real palettes, including Ember and Heatwave, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside #f5685b, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #f5685b in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #f5685b: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Diner, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #f5685b: 4 real palettes, including Cobalt Pop and Tide's brand system, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #f5685b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #f5685b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f5685b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.99:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.01:1 | 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 #f5685b 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
#f5685b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f5685b
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 #f5685b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f5685b-c4a49c-62cba1-2d261f-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