Color

#fa8e85

#fa8e85
hex#fa8e85
rgbrgb(250, 142, 133)
hslhsl(5, 92%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.76 0.132 25.7)
Closest name: Candy (#ff9b87)Relative luminance 0.4136

Colors that go with #fa8e85

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 #fa8e85

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#85f0fa

#fa85b5 · #fac985

#85fa8e · #8e85fa

Split-complementary

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#85fac9 · #85b5fa

#b5fa85 · #85f0fa · #c985fa

Contrast

#fa8e85 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.26:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e61c0a as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #b01507 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
9.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #fa8e85 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

#fa8e85 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #fa8e85
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 #fa8e85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/fa8e85-c4a49c-62cba1-2d261f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md