Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#f99ab5
#f99ab5
hex
#f99ab5rgb
rgb(249, 154, 181)hsl
hsl(343, 89%, 79%)oklch
oklch(0.79 0.117 1.7)Closest name: Ballet Slippers (#fca2ad)Relative luminance 0.4659
Colors that go with #f99ab5
Charcoal, Crimson 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 #f99ab5: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f99ab5 in 4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Railway's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #f99ab5, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Mushroom put Slate Gray beside #f99ab5, as the lead colour.
Medium Aquamarine #66cdaa
complementaryMedium Aquamarine sits directly opposite #f99ab5 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 #f99ab5: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #f99ab5: 3 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Victoria's Secret's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #f99ab5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f99ab5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.04:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.32:1 | 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 #f99ab5 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f99ab5 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f99ab5
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 #f99ab5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f99ab5-c49ca3-62cb7b-2d211f-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