Macaron
Open in tool →Rose, sky and pistachio at patisserie strength — the pastel trio, with a plum-grey text colour so it never washes out.
Color
#ef9fbc
#ef9fbc
hex
#ef9fbcrgb
rgb(239, 159, 188)hsl
hsl(338, 71%, 78%)oklch
oklch(0.789 0.101 356.3)Closest name: Elastic Pink (#eca6ca)Relative luminance 0.4678
Colors that go with #ef9fbc
Charcoal, Midnight Blue and Powder 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 #ef9fbc: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #ef9fbc in 4 real palettes, including Railway's brand system and Lavender Milk, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #ef9fbc in 4 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #ef9fbc in 6 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Midnight Luxe, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Aquamarine #66cdaa
complementaryMedium Aquamarine sits directly opposite #ef9fbc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Emerald Green #50c878
split-complementshippedEmerald Green is a split-complement of #ef9fbc: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #ef9fbc in 3 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #ef9fbc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ef9fbc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.03:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.36:1 | 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 #ef9fbc 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
#ef9fbc reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ef9fbc
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 #ef9fbc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ef9fbc-c49ca6-62cb72-2d201f-f1e9f0?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