Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#faa8a9
#faa8a9
hex
#faa8a9rgb
rgb(250, 168, 169)hsl
hsl(359, 89%, 82%)oklch
oklch(0.812 0.097 18.6)Closest name: Apricot Haze (#ffaaaa)Relative luminance 0.5119
Colors that go with #faa8a9
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 #faa8a9: 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 Bramble put Champagne beside #faa8a9, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #faa8a9 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 #faa8a9 in 5 real palettes, including Blush and Sepia Mono, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Railway's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #faa8a9, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #faa8a9: 8 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Chalkboard, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped8 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Sepia Mono put Slate Gray beside #faa8a9, as the lead colour.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #faa8a9 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 #faa8a9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #faa8a9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.24:1 | 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 #faa8a9 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
#faa8a9 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #faa8a9
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 #faa8a9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/faa8a9-c4a09c-62cb96-2d251f-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