Crayon Box
Open in tool →Red, teal and yellow at crayon saturation — joyful, but on white with black type so it stays readable for grown-ups.
Color
#fd6158
#fd6158
hex
#fd6158rgb
rgb(253, 97, 88)hsl
hsl(3, 98%, 67%)oklch
oklch(0.693 0.192 26.6)Closest name: Camellia (#f6685a)Relative luminance 0.3014
Colors that go with #fd6158
Charcoal, Light Sea Green 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #fd6158: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #fd6158 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 #fd6158 in 7 real palettes, including Ember and Heatwave, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #fd6158, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #fd6158: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Diner, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #fd6158: 4 real palettes, including Cobalt Pop and NASA's brand system, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #fd6158: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fd6158 in 9 real palettes, including Snyk's brand system and Redfin's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #fd6158
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fd6158 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.99:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.03:1 | 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 #fd6158 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fd6158 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fd6158
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 #fd6158 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fd6158-c4a39c-62cb9d-2d261f-f1e9ed?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