Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Named color
Beekeeper
#f6e491
hex
#f6e491rgb
rgb(246, 228, 145)hsl
hsl(49, 85%, 77%)oklch
oklch(0.915 0.105 97.4)Relative luminance 0.7712
Beekeeper on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
Colors that go with Beekeeper
Charcoal, Sandy Brown and Lilac 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 Beekeeper: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sandy Brown #f4a460
analogousshippedSandy Brown is Beekeeper's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite Beekeeper on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with Beekeeper in 4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Garnet, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with Beekeeper in 6 real palettes, including Diner and Coastal, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with Beekeeper in 9 real palettes, including Bramble and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with Beekeeper in 6 real palettes, including Lay's's brand system and Diner, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with Beekeeper in 10 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and BrandSweets's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use Beekeeper
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Beekeeper as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.28:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.42:1 | 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 Beekeeper 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
Beekeeper reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around Beekeeper
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 #f6e491 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f6e491-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?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