Sunset Boulevard
Open in tool →Coral, apricot and magenta on aubergine — the gradient sunset every event brand wants, decomposed into flat tokens.
Color
#f8b659
#f8b659
hex
#f8b659rgb
rgb(248, 182, 89)hsl
hsl(35, 92%, 66%)oklch
oklch(0.82 0.133 73.3)Closest name: Apricot (#ffb16d)Relative luminance 0.5413
Colors that go with #f8b659
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 #f8b659: 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 #f8b659 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 #f8b659: 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Open House, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #f8b659, as that palette's text colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #f8b659: 6 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f8b659 in 10 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Tequila Sunrise, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #f8b659 in 5 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #f8b659: 11 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #f8b659
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f8b659 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.78:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.83:1 | 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 #f8b659 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f8b659 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f8b659
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 #f8b659 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f8b659-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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