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
#fad2ad
#fad2ad
hex
#fad2adrgb
rgb(250, 210, 173)hsl
hsl(29, 89%, 83%)oklch
oklch(0.889 0.066 64.6)Closest name: Apricot Sherbet (#fbcd9f)Relative luminance 0.6943
Colors that go with #fad2ad
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep Sky 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 #fad2ad: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #fad2ad: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #fad2ad on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Goldenrod #daa520
analogousshippedGoldenrod is #fad2ad's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #fad2ad in 6 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #fad2ad, as the supporting colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Garnet put Brown beside #fad2ad, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #fad2ad: 7 real palettes, including Coastal and Estate, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #fad2ad
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fad2ad as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.41:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.89:1 | 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 #fad2ad 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
#fad2ad reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fad2ad
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 #fad2ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fad2ad-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?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