Sorbet
Open in tool →Peach, apricot and baby blue on white — a soft consumer-app palette that still gets AA text from a single dark ink.
Color
#f3d8af
#f3d8af
hex
#f3d8afrgb
rgb(243, 216, 175)hsl
hsl(36, 74%, 82%)oklch
oklch(0.895 0.061 78.1)Closest name: wheat (#f5deb3)Relative luminance 0.7126
Colors that go with #f3d8af
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #f3d8af: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #f3d8af: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #f3d8af: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Sky Blue #87cefa
complementaryshippedLight Sky Blue sits directly opposite #f3d8af on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #f3d8af in 6 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #f3d8af, as the supporting colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #f3d8af, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #f3d8af: 7 real palettes, including Coastal and Diner, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #f3d8af
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f3d8af as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.38:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.25:1 | 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 #f3d8af 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
#f3d8af reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f3d8af
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 #f3d8af and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f3d8af-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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