Color
#fb5165
#fb5165rgb(251, 81, 101)hsl(353, 96%, 65%)oklch(0.674 0.205 18)Colors that go with #fb5165
Charcoal, Medium Sea Green and Light Sea 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 #fb5165: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #fb5165: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #fb5165 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 #fb5165 in 7 real palettes, including Google's brand system and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Doordash's brand system put Blue beside #fb5165, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #fb5165: 4 real palettes, including NASA's brand system and Cobalt Pop, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #fb5165 — 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 #fb5165 in 8 real palettes, including Snyk's brand system and Wise's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #fb5165
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fb5165 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.25:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.47:1 | 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 #fb5165 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#fb5165 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #fb5165 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/fb5165-c49c9c-62cb8c-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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