Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#f2d97d
#f2d97d
hex
#f2d97drgb
rgb(242, 217, 125)hsl
hsl(47, 82%, 72%)oklch
oklch(0.887 0.116 94.6)Closest name: Ancient Treasure (#e7d082)Relative luminance 0.6998
Colors that go with #f2d97d
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Lilac 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.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #f2d97d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #f2d97d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #f2d97d: 4 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f2d97d in 8 real palettes, including Diner and Lay's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #f2d97d in 6 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #f2d97d: 8 real palettes, including FIFA's brand system and McDonald's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #f2d97d: 5 real palettes, including Star Wars's brand system and Miro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #f2d97d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f2d97d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.4:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15:1 | 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 #f2d97d 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
#f2d97d reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f2d97d
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 #f2d97d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f2d97d-c4c09c-62abcb-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