Dusk Gradient
Open in tool →Orange and peach on indigo-black with a violet — the last five minutes of a sunset, as a dark mode.
Color
#ffab5c
#ffab5c
hex
#ffab5crgb
rgb(255, 171, 92)hsl
hsl(29, 100%, 68%)oklch
oklch(0.809 0.137 62)Closest name: Apricot (#ffb16d)Relative luminance 0.5116
Colors that go with #ffab5c
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep Sky 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 #ffab5c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #ffab5c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #ffab5c 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 Binance's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #ffab5c, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ffab5c: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #ffab5c, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ffab5c in 6 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Tequila Sunrise, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ffab5c: 6 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Campus, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ffab5c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ffab5c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.23:1 | 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 #ffab5c as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#ffab5c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffab5c
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 #ffab5c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ffab5c-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?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