Beach Hut
Open in tool →Sea blue with sun-bleached yellow and a coral — striped-canvas summer, softened so it works on a screen.
Color
#fa8680
#fa8680
hex
#fa8680rgb
rgb(250, 134, 128)hsl
hsl(3, 92%, 74%)oklch
oklch(0.747 0.142 24.1)Closest name: salmon (#fa8072)Relative luminance 0.3893
Colors that go with #fa8680
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Dark Turquoise 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 #fa8680: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #fa8680 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryshippedDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #fa8680 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 #fa8680 in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Ahrefs's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #fa8680 in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #fa8680, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fa8680 in 5 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #fa8680: 8 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Postman's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #fa8680
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fa8680 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.39:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.79:1 | 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 #fa8680 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
#fa8680 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fa8680
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 #fa8680 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fa8680-c4a39c-62cb9d-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