Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#fa9ea8
#fa9ea8
hex
#fa9ea8rgb
rgb(250, 158, 168)hsl
hsl(353, 90%, 80%)oklch
oklch(0.794 0.11 12.8)Closest name: Ballet Slippers (#fca2ad)Relative luminance 0.476
Colors that go with #fa9ea8
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 #fa9ea8: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Bramble and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #fa9ea8, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fa9ea8 in 4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #fa9ea8 in 4 real palettes, including Blush and Sepia Mono, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Railway's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #fa9ea8, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #fa9ea8: 5 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Chalkboard, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped7 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Sepia Mono put Slate Gray beside #fa9ea8, as the lead colour.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #fa9ea8 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 #fa9ea8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fa9ea8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.52:1 | 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 #fa9ea8 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
#fa9ea8 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fa9ea8
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 #fa9ea8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fa9ea8-c49c9c-62cb8c-2d241f-f1e9ee?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