Tide Pool
Open in tool →Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
Color
#f8a172
#f8a172
hex
#f8a172rgb
rgb(248, 161, 114)hsl
hsl(21, 91%, 71%)oklch
oklch(0.786 0.121 48.7)Closest name: Butternut (#ffa177)Relative luminance 0.4666
Colors that go with #f8a172
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cadet 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 #f8a172: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #f8a172 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
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #f8a172 in 5 real palettes, including Open House and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #f8a172 in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #f8a172 in 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Desert Road, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #f8a172 in 5 real palettes, including Golden Hour and Velvet, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #f8a172 in 5 real palettes, including Canopy and Fireside, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shippedMustard Yellow is paired with #f8a172 in 4 real palettes, including Citrus Grove and Meadow, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #f8a172
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f8a172 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.03:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.33:1 | 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 #f8a172 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
#f8a172 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f8a172
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 #f8a172 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f8a172-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?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