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Sunset Color Palettes

12 free palettes with hex codes. Golden oranges, corals, pinks and dusky purples. Click any color to copy it.

About sunset palettes

Sunset palettes follow the sky as the sun goes down: golden yellow and orange near the horizon, coral and pink higher up, then magenta, violet and deep indigo as dusk sets in. Because these colors appear together in nature, they blend smoothly, which makes sunset palettes ideal for gradients.

Use them for travel and hospitality, music and festival branding, beauty products and social graphics. A sunset palette naturally runs from light and warm to dark and cool, so the darkest purple or navy makes a good text or background color, and the golden end works for highlights. For gradients, blend neighbors rather than the two ends to keep colors rich.

12 sunset palettes

Golden Hour

Best text pair:Aa#462255 on #FFB3477.3:1AAA

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Tropical Sunset

Best text pair:Aa#662E9B on #F9C80E5.5:1AA

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Dusk Sky

Best text pair:Aa#2C2A4A on #DABFFF8.4:1AAA

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Desert Sunset

Best text pair:Aa#84A59D on #F7EDE22.3:1too low for text

For text, useAa#000000 on #F7EDE218.2:1AAA

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Afterglow

Best text pair:Aa#6D6875 on #FFCDB23.8:1AA large

For text, useAa#000000 on #FFCDB214.6:1AAA

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Malibu Evening

Best text pair:Aa#233D4D on #FCCA467.4:1AAA

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Red Horizon

Best text pair:Aa#9B2226 on #EE9B003.5:1AA large

For text, useAa#000000 on #EE9B009.3:1AAA

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Twilight Pier

Best text pair:Aa#22223B on #F2E9E412.9:1AAA

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Peach Sky

Best text pair:Aa#FF8B94 on #FFE8D61.9:1too low for text

For text, useAa#000000 on #FFE8D617.8:1AAA

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Lava Glow

Best text pair:Aa#3D0C11 on #F3EDC814.1:1AAA

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Pink Sunset

Best text pair:Aa#560BAD on #F9A03F4.9:1AA

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Harbor Dusk

Best text pair:Aa#2E2F4F on #F2D0A48.8:1AAA

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Tips for sunset palettes

  • Sunset colors make the best gradients when blended in OKLCH or OKLab.
  • Use the deepest color for text and the lightest for backgrounds.
  • A silhouette in near-black over a sunset gradient is a classic, easy poster.

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