Dusk Gradient
Open in tool →Orange and peach on indigo-black with a violet — the last five minutes of a sunset, as a dark mode.
Color
#f77b4argb(247, 123, 74)hsl(17, 92%, 63%)oklch(0.717 0.165 41.3)Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep Sky Blue 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 #f77b4a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue is a split-complement of #f77b4a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #f77b4a 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 #f77b4a in 6 real palettes, including Maple and Ember, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #f77b4a, as the accent.
Burlywood is paired with #f77b4a in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #f77b4a: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #f77b4a, as that palette's text colour.
| #f77b4a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.66:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.89:1 | 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 #f77b4a as the background.
#f77b4a 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 #f77b4a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/f77b4a-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-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