Color

#f2b231

#f2b231
hex#f2b231
rgbrgb(242, 178, 49)
hslhsl(40, 88%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.803 0.153 79.8)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.5094

Colors that go with #f2b231

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

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#3171f2

#f25131 · #d2f231

#31f2b2 · #b231f2

Split-complementary

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#31d2f2 · #5131f2

#31f251 · #3171f2 · #f231d2

Contrast

#f2b231 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9e6d0a as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #734f07 as the text (7.37:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
11.19:1passpasspassPasses 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 #f2b231 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

#f2b231 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #f2b231
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 #f2b231 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/f2b231-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md