Sorbet
Open in tool →Peach, apricot and baby blue on white — a soft consumer-app palette that still gets AA text from a single dark ink.
Color
#faafa8
#faafa8
hex
#faafa8rgb
rgb(250, 175, 168)hsl
hsl(5, 89%, 82%)oklch
oklch(0.823 0.089 25.1)Closest name: Apricot Haze (#ffaaaa)Relative luminance 0.5381
Colors that go with #faafa8
Charcoal, Champagne and Eggplant 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 #faafa8: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #faafa8 in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Bramble, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #faafa8 in 5 real palettes, including Blush and Sepia Mono, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #faafa8 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 #faafa8 in 5 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Tide Pool, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #faafa8 in 8 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Oatmeal, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
shippedSky Blue is paired with #faafa8 in 4 real palettes, including Pastel Pop and Dusty Blue, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #faafa8 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 #faafa8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #faafa8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.79:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.76:1 | 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 #faafa8 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
#faafa8 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #faafa8
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 #faafa8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/faafa8-c4a49c-62cba1-2d261f-f1e9ec?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