Night Market
Open in tool →Orange, magenta and yellow neon on aubergine-black — the street-sign palette for food, nightlife and events.
Color
#ff38bd
#ff38bd
hex
#ff38bdrgb
rgb(255, 56, 189)hsl
hsl(320, 100%, 61%)oklch
oklch(0.687 0.258 345.3)Closest name: Brutal Pink (#ff00bb)Relative luminance 0.2776
Colors that go with #ff38bd
Medium Sea Green, Light Sea Green and Charcoal 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.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #ff38bd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
split-complementLight Sea Green is a split-complement of #ff38bd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ff38bd: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ff38bd in two real palettes: The Ordinary's brand system and Snyk's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Tomato #ff6347
analogousshippedTomato is #ff38bd's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Yellow #ffff00
shippedTwo real palettes: JetBrains's brand system and Arcade put Yellow beside #ff38bd, as the accent.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
triadicDark Goldenrod completes a triad with #ff38bd — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Aqua #00ffff
shippedArcade puts Aqua beside #ff38bd, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ff38bd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ff38bd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.2:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.55:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ff38bd 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
#ff38bd reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ff38bd
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 #ff38bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ff38bd-c19fb2-72cb62-2d1f23-f0e9f1?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