Color

#f0b642

#f0b642
hex#f0b642
rgbrgb(240, 182, 66)
hslhsl(40, 85%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.81 0.144 81.1)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.5237

Colors that go with #f0b642

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cadet 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

Open in tool →

#427cf0

#f05f42 · #d3f042

#42f0b6 · #b642f0

Split-complementary

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#42d3f0 · #5f42f0

#42f05f · #427cf0 · #f042d3

Contrast

#f0b642 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.83:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9c6c0d as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #76520a as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.21:1)
Aaon black
11.47:1passpasspassPasses 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 #f0b642 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

#f0b642 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #f0b642
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 #f0b642 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/f0b642-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md