Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#fe9fad
#fe9fad
hex
#fe9fadrgb
rgb(254, 159, 173)hsl
hsl(351, 98%, 81%)oklch
oklch(0.802 0.114 10.4)Closest name: Ballet Slippers (#fca2ad)Relative luminance 0.4888
Colors that go with #fe9fad
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 #fe9fad: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fe9fad 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 #fe9fad 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 #fe9fad, as the accent.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped7 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Sepia Mono put Slate Gray beside #fe9fad, as the lead colour.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #fe9fad on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Emerald Green #50c878
split-complementshippedEmerald Green is a split-complement of #fe9fad: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #fe9fad
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fe9fad 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 #fe9fad 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
#fe9fad reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fe9fad
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 #fe9fad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fe9fad-c49c9e-62cb89-2d231f-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