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
#ffb5a8
#ffb5a8
hex
#ffb5a8rgb
rgb(255, 181, 168)hsl
hsl(9, 100%, 83%)oklch
oklch(0.839 0.089 30.2)Closest name: Apricot Haze (#ffaaaa)Relative luminance 0.5713
Colors that go with #ffb5a8
Charcoal, Champagne and Crimson 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 #ffb5a8: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Bramble put Champagne beside #ffb5a8, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ffb5a8 in 4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Cartier's brand system, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #ffb5a8 in 5 real palettes, including Blush and Sepia Mono, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #ffb5a8, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #ffb5a8, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #ffb5a8: 4 real palettes, including Sorbet and Nursery, as the accent.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #ffb5a8 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 #ffb5a8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ffb5a8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.69:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.43:1 | 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 #ffb5a8 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
#ffb5a8 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffb5a8
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 #ffb5a8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ffb5a8-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?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