Color
#fd496d
#fd496drgb(253, 73, 109)hsl(348, 98%, 64%)oklch(0.672 0.215 13.8)Colors that go with #fd496d
Charcoal, Medium Sea Green and Light Sea Green 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 #fd496d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #fd496d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #fd496d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #fd496d in 6 real palettes, including Google's brand system and Heatwave, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped8 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Doordash's brand system put Blue beside #fd496d, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #fd496d: 4 real palettes, including NASA's brand system and Cobalt Pop, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #fd496d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fd496d in 8 real palettes, including Snyk's brand system and Wise's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #fd496d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fd496d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.31:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.35:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #fd496d as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#fd496d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #fd496d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/fd496d-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.
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