Color

#f0ae51

#f0ae51
hex#f0ae51
rgbrgb(240, 174, 81)
hslhsl(35, 84%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.796 0.133 73)
Closest name: Artisans Gold (#f2ab46)Relative luminance 0.4939

Colors that go with #f0ae51

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #f0ae51

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5193f0

#f05f51 · #e3f051

#51f0ae · #ae51f0

Split-complementary

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#51e3f0 · #5f51f0

#51f05f · #5193f0 · #f051e3

Contrast

#f0ae51 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.93:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a4660e as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #7f4e0b as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.03:1)
Aaon black
10.88:1passpasspassPasses 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 #f0ae51 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#f0ae51 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #f0ae51
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #f0ae51 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/f0ae51-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md