Lagoon
Open in tool →Turquoise and teal with a sand-yellow on white — shallow tropical water; the deep teal text is the reef.
Color
#efe98f
#efe98f
hex
#efe98frgb
rgb(239, 233, 143)hsl
hsl(56, 75%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.919 0.112 105.1)Closest name: khaki (#f0e68c)Relative luminance 0.7861
Colors that go with #efe98f
Charcoal, Sky Blue 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 #efe98f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #efe98f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #efe98f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #efe98f in 5 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Gumroad's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #efe98f: 7 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Bakery, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #efe98f in 8 real palettes, including Lay's's brand system and Diner, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #efe98f in 10 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and BrandSweets's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Deep Pink #ff1493
shipped4 real palettes, including Night Market and JetBrains's brand system put Deep Pink beside #efe98f, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #efe98f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #efe98f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.26:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.72:1 | 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 #efe98f 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
#efe98f reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #efe98f
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 #efe98f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/efe98f-bdbea2-4e9edf-282d1f-f1ede9?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