Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#f69074
#f69074
hex
#f69074rgb
rgb(246, 144, 116)hsl
hsl(13, 88%, 71%)oklch
oklch(0.755 0.13 36.2)Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.408
Colors that go with #f69074
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.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryshippedDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #f69074 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 #f69074 in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Ahrefs's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #f69074, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #f69074: 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 #f69074, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #f69074: 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #f69074 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #f69074
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f69074 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 #f69074 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
#f69074 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f69074
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 #f69074 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f69074-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