Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#fc9cb4
#fc9cb4
hex
#fc9cb4rgb
rgb(252, 156, 180)hsl
hsl(345, 94%, 80%)oklch
oklch(0.797 0.117 3.9)Closest name: Ballet Slippers (#fca2ad)Relative luminance 0.4777
Colors that go with #fc9cb4
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 #fc9cb4: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fc9cb4 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 #fc9cb4, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Sepia Mono put Slate Gray beside #fc9cb4, as the lead colour.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #fc9cb4 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 #fc9cb4: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #fc9cb4: 3 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Victoria's Secret's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #fc9cb4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fc9cb4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.99:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.55:1 | 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 #fc9cb4 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
#fc9cb4 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fc9cb4
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 #fc9cb4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fc9cb4-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