Lagoon
Open in tool →Turquoise and teal with a sand-yellow on white — shallow tropical water; the deep teal text is the reef.
Color
#f3e98c
#f3e98c
hex
#f3e98crgb
rgb(243, 233, 140)hsl
hsl(54, 81%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.922 0.115 103)Closest name: khaki (#f0e68c)Relative luminance 0.7923
Colors that go with #f3e98c
Charcoal, 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 #f3e98c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #f3e98c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #f3e98c 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 #f3e98c in 4 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Gumroad's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #f3e98c: 6 real palettes, including Bakery and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f3e98c in 10 real palettes, including Lay's's brand system and Diner, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #f3e98c in 9 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and BrandSweets's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #f3e98c: 6 real palettes, including FIFA's brand system and Ikea's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #f3e98c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f3e98c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.25:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.85:1 | 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 #f3e98c 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
#f3e98c reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f3e98c
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 #f3e98c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f3e98c-bebea2-4ea2df-292d1f-f1ede9?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