Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#fca3a1
#fca3a1
hex
#fca3a1rgb
rgb(252, 163, 161)hsl
hsl(1, 94%, 81%)oklch
oklch(0.803 0.106 21.1)Closest name: Calabrese (#f4a6a3)Relative luminance 0.4946
Colors that go with #fca3a1
Charcoal, Champagne and Crimson 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 #fca3a1: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Bramble and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #fca3a1, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fca3a1 in 5 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 #fca3a1 in 5 real palettes, including Blush and Golden Hour, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Tide Pool put Midnight Blue beside #fca3a1, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #fca3a1: 6 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 #fca3a1, as the lead colour.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #fca3a1 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 #fca3a1
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fca3a1 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.93:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.89:1 | 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 #fca3a1 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
#fca3a1 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fca3a1
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 #fca3a1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fca3a1-c4a19c-62cb9a-2d261f-f1e9ed?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