Playground
Open in tool →Orange, blue and green — the colors of playground equipment; loud, cheerful, obviously for kids.
CSS color
cornsilk
#fff8dc
hex
#fff8dcrgb
rgb(255, 248, 220)hsl
hsl(48, 100%, 93%)oklch
oklch(0.977 0.037 95.4)Relative luminance 0.9356
Cornsilk 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 cornsilk
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Dark Orange 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 cornsilk: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite cornsilk on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
analogousshippedDark Orange is cornsilk's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
triadicshippedDark Turquoise completes a triad with cornsilk — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of cornsilk: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of cornsilk: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Yellow Green #9acd32
analogousshippedYellow Green is cornsilk's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Real palettes that use cornsilk
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| cornsilk as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.07:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 19.71:1 | 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 cornsilk 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
Sunset Boulevard
Open in tool →Coral, apricot and magenta on aubergine — the gradient sunset every event brand wants, decomposed into flat tokens.
Retro Pop
Open in tool →Fifties-diner red and steel blue with a peach — nostalgic pop that still passes contrast.
Fonts for this mood
cornsilk reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around cornsilk
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 #fff8dc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fff8dc-c4c09c-62aacb-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