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
#faddb2
#faddb2
hex
#faddb2rgb
rgb(250, 221, 178)hsl
hsl(36, 88%, 84%)oklch
oklch(0.911 0.065 77.5)Closest name: wheat (#f5deb3)Relative luminance 0.7525
Colors that go with #faddb2
Charcoal, Dark Turquoise 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 #faddb2: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
triadicshippedDark Turquoise completes a triad with #faddb2 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #faddb2 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #faddb2: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #faddb2 in 19 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #faddb2, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #faddb2 in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Nursery and Estate put Blush Pink beside #faddb2, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #faddb2
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #faddb2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.31:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.05:1 | 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 #faddb2 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
#faddb2 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #faddb2
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 #faddb2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/faddb2-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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