Sorbet
Open in tool →Peach, apricot and baby blue on white — a soft consumer-app palette that still gets AA text from a single dark ink.
Color
#f9b59f
#f9b59f
hex
#f9b59frgb
rgb(249, 181, 159)hsl
hsl(15, 88%, 80%)oklch
oklch(0.831 0.085 38.7)Closest name: Blushing Cinnamon (#ffbf99)Relative luminance 0.5569
Colors that go with #f9b59f
Charcoal, Lilac and Deep Sky 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 #f9b59f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
triadicshippedLilac completes a triad with #f9b59f — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #f9b59f 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 #f9b59f: 4 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Bramble put Champagne beside #f9b59f, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f9b59f in 5 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Cartier's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #f9b59f in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #f9b59f: 7 real palettes, including Victoria's Secret's brand system and Fitbit's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #f9b59f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f9b59f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.73:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.14:1 | 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 #f9b59f 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
#f9b59f reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f9b59f
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 #f9b59f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f9b59f-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-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