Color
#fa5260
#fa5260rgb(250, 82, 96)hsl(355, 94%, 65%)oklch(0.673 0.203 19.9)Colors that go with #fa5260
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 #fa5260: 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 #fa5260 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #fa5260 in 7 real palettes, including Google's brand system and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Glossier's brand system put Blue beside #fa5260, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #fa5260: 4 real palettes, including NASA's brand system and Cobalt Pop, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fa5260 in 8 real palettes, including Snyk's brand system and Wise's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #fa5260: 14 real palettes, including Strava's brand system and PlanetScale's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #fa5260: 7 real palettes, including Google's brand system and Databricks's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #fa5260
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fa5260 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.26:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.44:1 | 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 #fa5260 as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#fa5260 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #fa5260 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/fa5260-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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