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
#ff9fbf
#ff9fbf
hex
#ff9fbfrgb
rgb(255, 159, 191)hsl
hsl(340, 100%, 81%)oklch
oklch(0.808 0.12 358.6)Closest name: Ballet Slippers (#fca2ad)Relative luminance 0.4982
Colors that go with #ff9fbf
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 #ff9fbf: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Railway's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #ff9fbf, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #ff9fbf: 4 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Sepia Mono put Slate Gray beside #ff9fbf, as the lead colour.
Medium Aquamarine #66cdaa
complementaryMedium Aquamarine sits directly opposite #ff9fbf 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 #ff9fbf: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ff9fbf in 3 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ff9fbf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ff9fbf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.92:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.96:1 | 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 #ff9fbf 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
#ff9fbf reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ff9fbf
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 #ff9fbf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ff9fbf-c49ca5-62cb75-2d211f-f1e9f0?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