Color

#f0b042

#f0b042
hex#f0b042
rgbrgb(240, 176, 66)
hslhsl(38, 85%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.798 0.143 77.2)
Closest name: Artisans Gold (#f2ab46)Relative luminance 0.4997

Colors that go with #f0b042

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4282f0

#f05942 · #d9f042

#42f0b0 · #b042f0

Split-complementary

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#42d9f0 · #5942f0

#42f059 · #4282f0 · #f042d9

Contrast

#f0b042 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a06a0d as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #764e0a as the text (7.33:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.11:1)
Aaon black
10.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #f0b042 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

#f0b042 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #f0b042
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 #f0b042 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/f0b042-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md