Tide Pool
Open in tool →Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
Color
#f79e7d
#f79e7d
hex
#f79e7drgb
rgb(247, 158, 125)hsl
hsl(16, 88%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.781 0.116 41.1)Closest name: lightsalmon (#ffa07a)Relative luminance 0.4571
Colors that go with #f79e7d
Charcoal, Emerald Green 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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #f79e7d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Emerald Green #50c878
triadicshippedEmerald Green completes a triad with #f79e7d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #f79e7d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #f79e7d: 5 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble put Champagne beside #f79e7d, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #f79e7d: 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Desert Road, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f79e7d in 6 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #f79e7d: 8 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Amazon's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #f79e7d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f79e7d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.07:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.14:1 | 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 #f79e7d 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
#f79e7d reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f79e7d
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 #f79e7d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f79e7d-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-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