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
#f2a6cb
#f2a6cb
hex
#f2a6cbrgb
rgb(242, 166, 203)hsl
hsl(331, 75%, 80%)oklch
oklch(0.809 0.101 348.9)Closest name: Elastic Pink (#eca6ca)Relative luminance 0.5046
Colors that go with #f2a6cb
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 #f2a6cb: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Railway's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #f2a6cb, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #f2a6cb: 4 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #f2a6cb: 4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Midnight Luxe put Slate Gray beside #f2a6cb, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #f2a6cb in 16 real palettes, including Macaron and Blossom, as the text colour against it.
Medium Aquamarine #66cdaa
complementaryMedium Aquamarine sits directly opposite #f2a6cb 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 #f2a6cb: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #f2a6cb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f2a6cb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.89:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.09:1 | 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 #f2a6cb as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f2a6cb reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f2a6cb
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 #f2a6cb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f2a6cb-c49cab-62cb66-2d1f20-f1e9f1?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