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
#f8a5cd
#f8a5cd
hex
#f8a5cdrgb
rgb(248, 165, 205)hsl
hsl(331, 86%, 81%)oklch
oklch(0.815 0.109 349.4)Closest name: Elastic Pink (#eca6ca)Relative luminance 0.5127
Colors that go with #f8a5cd
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 #f8a5cd: 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 #f8a5cd, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #f8a5cd: 4 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Midnight Luxe put Slate Gray beside #f8a5cd, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #f8a5cd in 13 real palettes, including Macaron and Blossom, as the text colour against it.
Medium Aquamarine #66cdaa
complementaryMedium Aquamarine sits directly opposite #f8a5cd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f8a5cd in 3 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Cartier's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #f8a5cd: 3 real palettes, including Victoria's Secret's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #f8a5cd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f8a5cd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.25:1 | 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 #f8a5cd as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f8a5cd reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f8a5cd
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 #f8a5cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f8a5cd-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