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
#fb7b65
#fb7b65
hex
#fb7b65rgb
rgb(251, 123, 101)hsl
hsl(9, 95%, 69%)oklch
oklch(0.727 0.161 31.3)Closest name: salmon (#fa8072)Relative luminance 0.3561
Colors that go with #fb7b65
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #fb7b65: 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 #fb7b65 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #fb7b65: 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 #fb7b65 — 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 #fb7b65 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 #fb7b65 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 #fb7b65, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #fb7b65 in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #fb7b65
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fb7b65 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.59:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.12:1 | 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 #fb7b65 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fb7b65 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fb7b65
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 #fb7b65 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fb7b65-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?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