Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#fb8f74
#fb8f74
hex
#fb8f74rgb
rgb(251, 143, 116)hsl
hsl(12, 94%, 72%)oklch
oklch(0.76 0.137 35)Closest name: Candy (#ff9b87)Relative luminance 0.4142
Colors that go with #fb8f74
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.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryshippedDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #fb8f74 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 #fb8f74 in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Ahrefs's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #fb8f74, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #fb8f74 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 #fb8f74, as that palette's text colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #fb8f74 — 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 #fb8f74 in 6 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Burger King's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #fb8f74
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fb8f74 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.26:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.28:1 | 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 #fb8f74 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
#fb8f74 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fb8f74
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 #fb8f74 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fb8f74-c4a99c-62cbad-2d281f-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