Color
#f97ba1
#f97ba1rgb(249, 123, 161)hsl(342, 91%, 73%)oklch(0.737 0.158 2.6)Colors that go with #f97ba1
Charcoal, Light Sea Green and Midnight 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 #f97ba1: 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 #f97ba1 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Casper Sleep's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #f97ba1, as the text colour against it.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped4 real palettes, including Meadow and Lido put Mustard Yellow beside #f97ba1, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #f97ba1 in 11 real palettes, including Meadow and Raycast's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Emerald Green #50c878
split-complementshippedEmerald Green is a split-complement of #f97ba1: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
split-complementshippedDark Turquoise is a split-complement of #f97ba1: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #f97ba1: 3 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #f97ba1
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f97ba1 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.51:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.38:1 | 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 #f97ba1 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#f97ba1 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #f97ba1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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