Cobalt Pop
Open in tool →One deep cobalt and one hot pink on white — a two-accent system for launches and campaign pages that need punch.
Color
#f96c8d
#f96c8d
hex
#f96c8drgb
rgb(249, 108, 141)hsl
hsl(346, 92%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.712 0.174 8.1)Closest name: Blush Hour (#ff6f91)Relative luminance 0.3279
Colors that go with #f96c8d
Charcoal, Light Sea Green and Mustard Yellow 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 #f96c8d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #f96c8d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shippedMustard Yellow is paired with #f96c8d in 5 real palettes, including Lido and Crayon Box, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #f96c8d in 10 real palettes, including Airbnb's brand system and Crayon Box, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #f96c8d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #f96c8d in 3 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Ember, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold is paired with #f96c8d in 3 real palettes, including Streetwear and Night Market, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #f96c8d in 3 real palettes, including Resort and Polaroid, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #f96c8d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f96c8d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.78:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.56:1 | 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 #f96c8d 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
#f96c8d reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f96c8d
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 #f96c8d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f96c8d-c49ca1-62cb80-2d221f-f1e9ef?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