Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#fa8e70
#fa8e70
hex
#fa8e70rgb
rgb(250, 142, 112)hsl
hsl(13, 93%, 71%)oklch
oklch(0.756 0.138 36.4)Closest name: darksalmon (#e9967a)Relative luminance 0.4084
Colors that go with #fa8e70
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue 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.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #fa8e70 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 #fa8e70 in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Ahrefs's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #fa8e70, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #fa8e70 in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #fa8e70, as that palette's text colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #fa8e70 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fa8e70 in 5 real palettes, including Burger King's brand system and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #fa8e70
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fa8e70 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.29:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.17:1 | 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 #fa8e70 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
#fa8e70 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fa8e70
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 #fa8e70 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fa8e70-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