Sorbet
Open in tool →Peach, apricot and baby blue on white — a soft consumer-app palette that still gets AA text from a single dark ink.
Color
#fdae96
#fdae96
hex
#fdae96rgb
rgb(253, 174, 150)hsl
hsl(14, 96%, 79%)oklch
oklch(0.821 0.099 37.6)Closest name: Apricot Haze (#ffaaaa)Relative luminance 0.5336
Colors that go with #fdae96
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cadet 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 #fdae96: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #fdae96 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #fdae96 in 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Clean Beauty, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #fdae96 in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Bramble, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #fdae96 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #fdae96 in 5 real palettes, including Blush and Golden Hour, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #fdae96 in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Desert Road, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #fdae96 in 5 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Lavender Milk, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #fdae96
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fdae96 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.8:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.67:1 | 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 #fdae96 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
#fdae96 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fdae96
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 #fdae96 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fdae96-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?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