Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#fca1ad
#fca1ad
hex
#fca1adrgb
rgb(252, 161, 173)hsl
hsl(352, 94%, 81%)oklch
oklch(0.803 0.109 11.2)Closest name: Ballet Slippers (#fca2ad)Relative luminance 0.492
Colors that go with #fca1ad
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 #fca1ad: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fca1ad 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 #fca1ad 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 #fca1ad, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #fca1ad: 4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Chalkboard, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped7 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Sepia Mono put Slate Gray beside #fca1ad, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #fca1ad in 20 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the text colour against it.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #fca1ad on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #fca1ad
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fca1ad as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.94:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.84:1 | 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 #fca1ad 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
#fca1ad reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fca1ad
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 #fca1ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fca1ad-c49c9d-62cb8a-2d231f-f1e9ee?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