Sorbet
Open in tool →Peach, apricot and baby blue on white — a soft consumer-app palette that still gets AA text from a single dark ink.
Color
#ffb1ae
#ffb1ae
hex
#ffb1aergb
rgb(255, 177, 174)hsl
hsl(2, 100%, 84%)oklch
oklch(0.834 0.092 21.7)Closest name: Apricot Haze (#ffaaaa)Relative luminance 0.5576
Colors that go with #ffb1ae
Charcoal, Eggplant 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 #ffb1ae: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #ffb1ae in 5 real palettes, including Blush and Sepia Mono, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #ffb1ae in 5 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Railway's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #ffb1ae in 4 real palettes, including Sorbet and Nursery, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #ffb1ae in 7 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Oatmeal, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
shippedSky Blue is paired with #ffb1ae in 4 real palettes, including Pastel Pop and Dusty Blue, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #ffb1ae in 9 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Kiln, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #ffb1ae 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 #ffb1ae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ffb1ae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.73:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.15:1 | 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 #ffb1ae 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
#ffb1ae reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffb1ae
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 #ffb1ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ffb1ae-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?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