Color

#faad8e

#faad8e
hex#faad8e
rgbrgb(250, 173, 142)
hslhsl(17, 92%, 77%)
oklchoklch(0.814 0.1 42.8)
Closest name: lightsalmon (#ffa07a)Relative luminance 0.5216

Colors that go with #faad8e

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8edcfa

#fa8ea6 · #fae38e

#8efaad · #ad8efa

Split-complementary

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#8efae3 · #8ea6fa

#a6fa8e · #8edcfa · #e38efa

Contrast

#faad8e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.84:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d34209 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #9d3107 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.19:1)
Aaon black
11.43:1passpasspassPasses 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 #faad8e 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

#faad8e reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #faad8e
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 #faad8e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/faad8e-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md