Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#fc97b0
#fc97b0
hex
#fc97b0rgb
rgb(252, 151, 176)hsl
hsl(345, 94%, 79%)oklch
oklch(0.788 0.124 4.3)Closest name: Ballet Slippers (#fca2ad)Relative luminance 0.4596
Colors that go with #fc97b0
Charcoal, Crimson and Midnight 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 #fc97b0: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fc97b0 in 4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Railway's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #fc97b0, as the lead colour.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #fc97b0 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Emerald Green #50c878
split-complementshippedEmerald Green is a split-complement of #fc97b0: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #fc97b0: 3 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #fc97b0: 3 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #fc97b0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fc97b0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.06:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.19:1 | 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 #fc97b0 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fc97b0 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fc97b0
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 #fc97b0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fc97b0-c49ca1-62cb7e-2d221f-f1e9ef?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