Color
#fa9485
#fa9485rgb(250, 148, 133)hsl(8, 92%, 75%)oklch(0.77 0.126 29.2)Colors that go with #fa9485
Charcoal, Dark Turquoise and Cadet 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 #fa9485: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryshippedDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #fa9485 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #fa9485 in 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #fa9485 in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #fa9485 in 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Desert Road, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #fa9485 in 5 real palettes, including Golden Hour and Blush, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #fa9485 in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Desert Road, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #fa9485 in 4 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Sketch's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #fa9485
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fa9485 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.18:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.64:1 | 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 #fa9485 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
#fa9485 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 #fa9485 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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