Sunset Boulevard
Open in tool →Coral, apricot and magenta on aubergine — the gradient sunset every event brand wants, decomposed into flat tokens.
Color
#fcb659
#fcb659
hex
#fcb659rgb
rgb(252, 182, 89)hsl
hsl(34, 96%, 67%)oklch
oklch(0.825 0.136 71.6)Closest name: Apricot (#ffb16d)Relative luminance 0.5487
Colors that go with #fcb659
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Champagne 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 #fcb659: 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 #fcb659 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #fcb659 in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedCornflower Blue is paired with #fcb659 in 6 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Webflow's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fcb659 in 7 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Tequila Sunrise, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #fcb659 in 5 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #fcb659 in 8 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #fcb659 in 5 real palettes, including Heatwave and PostHog's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #fcb659
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fcb659 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.75:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.97:1 | 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 #fcb659 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fcb659 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fcb659
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 #fcb659 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fcb659-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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