Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#fe9aa4
#fe9aa4
hex
#fe9aa4rgb
rgb(254, 154, 164)hsl
hsl(354, 98%, 80%)oklch
oklch(0.792 0.12 13.7)Closest name: Ballet Slippers (#fca2ad)Relative luminance 0.4686
Colors that go with #fe9aa4
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 #fe9aa4: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fe9aa4 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 #fe9aa4 in 4 real palettes, including Blush and Golden Hour, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Railway's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #fe9aa4, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #fe9aa4: 5 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Chalkboard, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Mushroom put Slate Gray beside #fe9aa4, as the lead colour.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #fe9aa4 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 #fe9aa4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fe9aa4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.02:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.37:1 | 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 #fe9aa4 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
#fe9aa4 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fe9aa4
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 #fe9aa4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fe9aa4-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