Crayon Box
Open in tool →Red, teal and yellow at crayon saturation — joyful, but on white with black type so it stays readable for grown-ups.
Color
#f96264
#f96264
hex
#f96264rgb
rgb(249, 98, 100)hsl
hsl(359, 93%, 68%)oklch
oklch(0.69 0.185 22.5)Closest name: Camellia (#f6685a)Relative luminance 0.298
Colors that go with #f96264
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 #f96264: 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 #f96264 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #f96264, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f96264 in 6 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Snyk's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #f96264: 8 real palettes, including Postman's brand system and PlanetScale's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #f96264: 8 real palettes, including Figma's brand system and Readymag's brand system, as the accent.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold shows up next to #f96264 in 7 real palettes, including Night Market and Streetwear, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #f96264
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f96264 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.02:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.96:1 | 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 #f96264 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f96264 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f96264
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 #f96264 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f96264-c4a09c-62cb96-2d251f-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