Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#fc9caf
#fc9caf
hex
#fc9cafrgb
rgb(252, 156, 175)hsl
hsl(348, 94%, 80%)oklch
oklch(0.795 0.116 7.2)Closest name: Ballet Slippers (#fca2ad)Relative luminance 0.4757
Colors that go with #fc9caf
Charcoal, Crimson 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 #fc9caf: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fc9caf in 4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #fc9caf in 4 real palettes, including Blush and Sepia Mono, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Railway's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #fc9caf, as the accent.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Sepia Mono put Slate Gray beside #fc9caf, as the lead colour.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #fc9caf 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 #fc9caf: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #fc9caf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fc9caf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.51:1 | 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 #fc9caf 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
#fc9caf reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fc9caf
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 #fc9caf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fc9caf-c49c9f-62cb83-2d231f-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