Tide Pool
Open in tool →Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
Color
#ff956b
#ff956b
hex
#ff956brgb
rgb(255, 149, 107)hsl
hsl(17, 100%, 71%)oklch
oklch(0.773 0.14 42.1)Closest name: Atomic Tangerine (#ff9966)Relative luminance 0.4382
Colors that go with #ff956b
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue 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 #ff956b: 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 #ff956b 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 #ff956b in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Ahrefs's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ff956b: 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 #ff956b, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ff956b in 6 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Burger King's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ff956b: 9 real palettes, including Amazon's brand system and Campus, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #ff956b: 8 real palettes, including Playground and Spline's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ff956b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ff956b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.15:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.76:1 | 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 #ff956b 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
#ff956b reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ff956b
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 #ff956b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ff956b-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-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