Tide Pool
Open in tool →Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
Color
#fc995f
#fc995f
hex
#fc995frgb
rgb(252, 153, 95)hsl
hsl(22, 96%, 68%)oklch
oklch(0.774 0.14 49.9)Closest name: Atomic Tangerine (#ff9966)Relative luminance 0.443
Colors that go with #fc995f
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and 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 #fc995f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #fc995f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #fc995f in 4 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and League of Legends's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #fc995f in 4 real palettes, including Open House and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #fc995f in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedCornflower Blue is paired with #fc995f in 5 real palettes, including Webflow's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fc995f in 5 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Tequila Sunrise, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #fc995f in 8 real palettes, including Campus and Gopro's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #fc995f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fc995f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.13:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.86:1 | 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 #fc995f 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
#fc995f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fc995f
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 #fc995f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fc995f-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?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