Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#fda0a9
#fda0a9
hex
#fda0a9rgb
rgb(253, 160, 169)hsl
hsl(354, 96%, 81%)oklch
oklch(0.801 0.111 13.6)Closest name: Ballet Slippers (#fca2ad)Relative luminance 0.4889
Colors that go with #fda0a9
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 #fda0a9: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Bramble and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #fda0a9, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fda0a9 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 #fda0a9 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 #fda0a9, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #fda0a9: 5 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 #fda0a9, as the lead colour.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #fda0a9 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 #fda0a9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fda0a9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.95:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.78:1 | 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 #fda0a9 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
#fda0a9 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fda0a9
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 #fda0a9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fda0a9-c49d9c-62cb8e-2d241f-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