Tide Pool
Open in tool →Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
Color
#fe9862
#fe9862
hex
#fe9862rgb
rgb(254, 152, 98)hsl
hsl(21, 99%, 69%)oklch
oklch(0.775 0.141 47.7)Closest name: Atomic Tangerine (#ff9966)Relative luminance 0.4441
Colors that go with #fe9862
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 #fe9862: 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 #fe9862 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #fe9862, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #fe9862: 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #fe9862, as that palette's text colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #fe9862: 5 real palettes, including Webflow's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fe9862 in 6 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Burger King's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #fe9862: 10 real palettes, including Amazon's brand system and Campus, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #fe9862
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fe9862 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.13:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.88:1 | 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 #fe9862 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
#fe9862 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fe9862
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 #fe9862 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fe9862-c4af9c-62cbbd-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