Playground
Open in tool →Orange, blue and green — the colors of playground equipment; loud, cheerful, obviously for kids.
Color
#fafae0
#fafae0
hex
#fafae0rgb
rgb(250, 250, 224)hsl
hsl(60, 72%, 93%)oklch
oklch(0.978 0.034 107)Closest name: cornsilk (#fff8dc)Relative luminance 0.9408
Colors that go with #fafae0
Charcoal, Lilac and Sand 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 #fafae0: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #fafae0 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sand #c2b280
analogousshippedSand is #fafae0's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
triadicshippedSky Blue completes a triad with #fafae0 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Cargo's brand system put Blue beside #fafae0, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #fafae0 in 12 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Fly.io's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Nursery and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #fafae0, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #fafae0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fafae0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.06:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 19.82:1 | 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 #fafae0 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
Sunset Boulevard
Open in tool →Coral, apricot and magenta on aubergine — the gradient sunset every event brand wants, decomposed into flat tokens.
Retro Pop
Open in tool →Fifties-diner red and steel blue with a peach — nostalgic pop that still passes contrast.
Fonts for this mood
#fafae0 reads as vivid, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fafae0
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 #fafae0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fafae0-bbbea2-4e94df-272d1f-f1ede9?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