Color

#fa8a80

#fa8a80
hex#fa8a80
rgbrgb(250, 138, 128)
hslhsl(5, 92%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.753 0.138 26.2)
Closest name: salmon (#fa8072)Relative luminance 0.4006

Colors that go with #fa8a80

Charcoal, Dark Turquoise and Burlywood 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.

Real palettes that use #fa8a80

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#80f0fa

#fa80b3 · #fac780

#80fa8a · #8a80fa

Split-complementary

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#80fac7 · #80b3fa

#b3fa80 · #80f0fa · #c780fa

Contrast

#fa8a80 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e61c0a as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #b01507 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.07:1)
Aaon black
9.01:1passpasspassPasses 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 #fa8a80 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

#fa8a80 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #fa8a80
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #fa8a80 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/fa8a80-c4a49c-62cba1-2d261f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md