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
#fab06b
#fab06b
hex
#fab06brgb
rgb(250, 176, 107)hsl
hsl(29, 93%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.814 0.122 62.7)Closest name: Apricot (#ffb16d)Relative luminance 0.5244
Colors that go with #fab06b
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep Sky Blue 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.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #fab06b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #fab06b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #fab06b, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #fab06b: 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Open House, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #fab06b, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #fab06b: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fab06b in 9 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Tequila Sunrise, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #fab06b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fab06b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.83:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.49:1 | 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 #fab06b 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
#fab06b reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fab06b
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 #fab06b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fab06b-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?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