Color

#fb8979

#fb8979
hex#fb8979
rgbrgb(251, 137, 121)
hslhsl(7, 94%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.751 0.141 29.2)
Closest name: salmon (#fa8072)Relative luminance 0.3978

Colors that go with #fb8979

Charcoal, Dark Turquoise 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.

Real palettes that use #fb8979

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#79ecfb

#fb79ab · #fbc979

#79fb89 · #8979fb

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#79fbc9 · #79abfb

#abfb79 · #79ecfb · #c979fb

Contrast

#fb8979 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.34:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e42107 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #ad1905 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.96:1passpasspassPasses 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 #fb8979 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

#fb8979 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #fb8979
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #fb8979 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/fb8979-c4a59c-62cba4-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md