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Color
#f96f5d
#f96f5d
hex
#f96f5drgb
rgb(249, 111, 93)hsl
hsl(7, 93%, 67%)oklch
oklch(0.706 0.173 29.6)Closest name: Camellia (#f6685a)Relative luminance 0.323
Colors that go with #f96f5d
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Light Sea 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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #f96f5d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #f96f5d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #f96f5d 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 Sketch's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #f96f5d, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #f96f5d in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #f96f5d: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f96f5d in 7 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Burger King's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #f96f5d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f96f5d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.82:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.46:1 | 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 #f96f5d as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f96f5d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f96f5d
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 #f96f5d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f96f5d-c4a59c-62cba4-2d271f-f1e9ec?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