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
#f87d54rgb(248, 125, 84)hsl(15, 92%, 65%)oklch(0.723 0.161 38.9)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 #f87d54: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue is a split-complement of #f87d54: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #f87d54 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Emerald Green completes a triad with #f87d54 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber is paired with #f87d54 in 6 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Maple, as the supporting colour.
5 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #f87d54, as the accent.
Burlywood is paired with #f87d54 in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #f87d54: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
| #f87d54 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.61:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.05:1 | 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 #f87d54 as the background.
#f87d54 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 #f87d54 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/f87d54-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?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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