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
#fa5552
#fa5552
hex
#fa5552rgb
rgb(250, 85, 82)hsl
hsl(1, 94%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.674 0.202 25.2)Closest name: Blood Burst (#ff474c)Relative luminance 0.2743
Colors that go with #fa5552
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 #fa5552: 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 #fa5552 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #fa5552 in 7 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Readymag's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fa5552 in 7 real palettes, including Snyk's brand system and Wise's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #fa5552 in 9 real palettes, including Strava's brand system and PlanetScale's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #fa5552 in 6 real palettes, including Figma's brand system and Heatwave, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedFirebrick is paired with #fa5552 in 4 real palettes, including Ember and Maple, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #fa5552
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fa5552 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.24:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.49:1 | 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 #fa5552 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fa5552 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fa5552
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 #fa5552 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fa5552-c4a19c-62cb9a-2d261f-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