Macaron
Open in tool →Rose, sky and pistachio at patisserie strength — the pastel trio, with a plum-grey text colour so it never washes out.
Color
#fea9be
#fea9be
hex
#fea9bergb
rgb(254, 169, 190)hsl
hsl(345, 98%, 83%)oklch
oklch(0.823 0.103 3.5)Closest name: Ballet Slippers (#fca2ad)Relative luminance 0.5316
Colors that go with #fea9be
Charcoal, Midnight Blue and Powder 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 #fea9be: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #fea9be in 4 real palettes, including Railway's brand system and Lavender Milk, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #fea9be in 4 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #fea9be in 6 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Oatmeal, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #fea9be in 8 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Sepia Mono, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #fea9be in 22 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #fea9be 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 #fea9be: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #fea9be
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fea9be as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.81:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.63:1 | 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 #fea9be as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fea9be reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fea9be
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 #fea9be and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fea9be-c49ca1-62cb7e-2d221f-f1e9ef?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