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
#f85459
#f85459
hex
#f85459rgb
rgb(248, 84, 89)hsl
hsl(358, 92%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.671 0.2 22.6)Closest name: Blood Burst (#ff474c)Relative luminance 0.2702
Colors that go with #f85459
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 #f85459: 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 #f85459 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold is paired with #f85459 in 4 real palettes, including Streetwear and Tequila Sunrise, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shippedMustard Yellow is paired with #f85459 in 4 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Lido, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #f85459 in 4 real palettes, including Resort and Homestead, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #f85459 in 12 real palettes, including Airbnb's brand system and Crayon Box, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #f85459
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f85459 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.28:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.4:1 | 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 #f85459 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f85459 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f85459
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 #f85459 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f85459-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.
Machine-readable: color.md