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
#ffb6a9
#ffb6a9
hex
#ffb6a9rgb
rgb(255, 182, 169)hsl
hsl(9, 100%, 83%)oklch
oklch(0.841 0.088 30.3)Closest name: Apricot Haze (#ffaaaa)Relative luminance 0.5758
Colors that go with #ffb6a9
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Eggplant 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 #ffb6a9: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ffb6a9 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #ffb6a9 in 5 real palettes, including Blush and Sepia Mono, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Casper Sleep's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #ffb6a9, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #ffb6a9, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #ffb6a9: 4 real palettes, including Sorbet and Nursery, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #ffb6a9: 8 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
complementaryDark Turquoise sits directly opposite #ffb6a9 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 #ffb6a9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ffb6a9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.68:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.52:1 | 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 #ffb6a9 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
#ffb6a9 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffb6a9
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 #ffb6a9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ffb6a9-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