Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#fc8f64
#fc8f64
hex
#fc8f64rgb
rgb(252, 143, 100)hsl
hsl(17, 96%, 69%)oklch
oklch(0.759 0.144 41.9)Closest name: Atomic Tangerine (#ff9966)Relative luminance 0.4126
Colors that go with #fc8f64
Charcoal, Emerald Green 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 #fc8f64: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Emerald Green #50c878
triadicshippedEmerald Green completes a triad with #fc8f64 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #fc8f64 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 #fc8f64 in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Ahrefs's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #fc8f64, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #fc8f64, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fc8f64 in 5 real palettes, including Burger King's brand system and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #fc8f64: 12 real palettes, including Amazon's brand system and Postman's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #fc8f64
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fc8f64 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.27:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.25:1 | 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 #fc8f64 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
#fc8f64 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fc8f64
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 #fc8f64 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fc8f64-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?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