Dusk Gradient
Open in tool →Orange and peach on indigo-black with a violet — the last five minutes of a sunset, as a dark mode.
Color
#fa7a57
#fa7a57
hex
#fa7a57rgb
rgb(250, 122, 87)hsl
hsl(13, 94%, 66%)oklch
oklch(0.722 0.165 36.2)Closest name: Bonfire (#f78058)Relative luminance 0.3493
Colors that go with #fa7a57
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Emerald 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 #fa7a57: 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 #fa7a57: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Emerald Green #50c878
triadicshippedEmerald Green completes a triad with #fa7a57 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #fa7a57 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 #fa7a57 in 6 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Ember, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #fa7a57, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #fa7a57 in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #fa7a57 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #fa7a57
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fa7a57 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.63:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.99:1 | 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 #fa7a57 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fa7a57 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fa7a57
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 #fa7a57 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fa7a57-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