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
#ffa9be
#ffa9be
hex
#ffa9bergb
rgb(255, 169, 190)hsl
hsl(345, 100%, 83%)oklch
oklch(0.824 0.104 3.7)Closest name: Ballet Slippers (#fca2ad)Relative luminance 0.5335
Colors that go with #ffa9be
Charcoal, Crimson and Midnight 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 #ffa9be: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ffa9be in 4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Cartier's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Railway's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #ffa9be, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #ffa9be: 4 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #ffa9be: 6 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped7 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Sepia Mono put Slate Gray beside #ffa9be, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #ffa9be in 21 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the text colour against it.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #ffa9be 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 #ffa9be
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ffa9be as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.8:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.67:1 | 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 #ffa9be as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#ffa9be reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffa9be
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 #ffa9be and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ffa9be-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