Color
#ff9d85
#ff9d85rgb(255, 157, 133)hsl(12, 100%, 76%)oklch(0.791 0.123 34.6)Colors that go with #ff9d85
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 #ff9d85: 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 #ff9d85: 5 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble put Champagne beside #ff9d85, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ff9d85: 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Desert Road, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #ff9d85 — 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 #ff9d85 in 5 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 #ff9d85: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ff9d85: 6 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Campus, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #ff9d85
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ff9d85 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.02:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.41:1 | 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 #ff9d85 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#ff9d85 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ff9d85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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