Tide Pool
Open in tool →Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
Color
#f99b80
#f99b80
hex
#f99b80rgb
rgb(249, 155, 128)hsl
hsl(13, 91%, 74%)oklch
oklch(0.779 0.12 36.8)Closest name: Candy (#ff9b87)Relative luminance 0.4514
Colors that go with #f99b80
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 #f99b80: 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 #f99b80 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 #f99b80: 5 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble put Champagne beside #f99b80, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #f99b80: 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Desert Road, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #f99b80 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f99b80 in 6 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #f99b80: 9 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Amazon's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #f99b80
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f99b80 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.09:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.03:1 | 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 #f99b80 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
#f99b80 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f99b80
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 #f99b80 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f99b80-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-f1e9eb?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