Tide Pool
Open in tool →Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
Color
#fe9b80
#fe9b80
hex
#fe9b80rgb
rgb(254, 155, 128)hsl
hsl(13, 98%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.785 0.125 36.1)Closest name: Candy (#ff9b87)Relative luminance 0.4607
Colors that go with #fe9b80
Charcoal, Cadet 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 #fe9b80: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #fe9b80: 5 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble put Champagne beside #fe9b80, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #fe9b80: 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Desert Road, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #fe9b80 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fe9b80 in 6 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #fe9b80: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #fe9b80: 7 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Amazon's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #fe9b80
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fe9b80 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.06:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.21:1 | 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 #fe9b80 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
#fe9b80 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fe9b80
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 #fe9b80 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fe9b80-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-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