Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#f9aaac
#f9aaac
hex
#f9aaacrgb
rgb(249, 170, 172)hsl
hsl(358, 87%, 82%)oklch
oklch(0.815 0.093 17.6)Closest name: Apricot Haze (#ffaaaa)Relative luminance 0.5187
Colors that go with #f9aaac
Charcoal, Champagne and Crimson 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 #f9aaac: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #f9aaac, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f9aaac in 4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Cartier's brand system, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #f9aaac in 5 real palettes, including Blush and Sepia Mono, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Railway's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #f9aaac, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #f9aaac: 5 real palettes, including Nursery and Sorbet, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #f9aaac: 8 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Chalkboard, as the lead colour.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #f9aaac on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #f9aaac
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f9aaac as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.85:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.37:1 | 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 #f9aaac 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
#f9aaac reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f9aaac
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 #f9aaac and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f9aaac-c49f9c-62cb95-2d251f-f1e9ed?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