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
#ffad5c
#ffad5c
hex
#ffad5crgb
rgb(255, 173, 92)hsl
hsl(30, 100%, 68%)oklch
oklch(0.812 0.136 63.4)Closest name: Apricot (#ffb16d)Relative luminance 0.5192
Colors that go with #ffad5c
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 #ffad5c: 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 #ffad5c: 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 #ffad5c 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 #ffad5c, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ffad5c: 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Open House, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #ffad5c, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ffad5c in 6 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Tequila Sunrise, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ffad5c: 7 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Campus, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ffad5c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ffad5c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.84:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.38:1 | 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 #ffad5c as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#ffad5c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffad5c
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 #ffad5c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ffad5c-c4b59c-62c9cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?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