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
#f87a5drgb(248, 122, 93)hsl(11, 92%, 67%)oklch(0.72 0.161 34.2)Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Emerald Green 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 #f87a5d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #f87a5d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Emerald Green completes a triad with #f87a5d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Light Sea Green sits directly opposite #f87a5d 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 #f87a5d in 6 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Ember, as the supporting colour.
5 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #f87a5d, as the accent.
Burlywood is paired with #f87a5d in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue completes a triad with #f87a5d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
| #f87a5d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.65:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.93:1 | 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 #f87a5d as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#f87a5d 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 #f87a5d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/f87a5d-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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