Tabloid
Open in tool →Red, black and yellow on white is the loudest three-color system in print — use it when headlines are the product.
Color
#f2cc36
#f2cc36
hex
#f2cc36rgb
rgb(242, 204, 54)hsl
hsl(48, 88%, 58%)oklch
oklch(0.854 0.161 93.8)Closest name: Aurora (#ebd147)Relative luminance 0.6233
Colors that go with #f2cc36
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Crimson 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.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #f2cc36 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f2cc36 in 5 real palettes, including Tabloid and Diner, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #f2cc36 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #f2cc36 in 5 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Kiln, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #f2cc36 in 13 real palettes, including Citrus Grove and Meadow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Tomato #ff6347
shippedTomato is paired with #f2cc36 in 7 real palettes, including Night Market and Ember, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #f2cc36: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #f2cc36
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f2cc36 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.56:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.47:1 | 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 #f2cc36 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
Garnet
Open in tool →Garnet, carnelian and citrine on a wine-black — the warm jewel set for spirits, theatre and jewellery itself.
Fonts for this mood
#f2cc36 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f2cc36
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 #f2cc36 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f2cc36-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?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