Crayon Box
Open in tool →Red, teal and yellow at crayon saturation — joyful, but on white with black type so it stays readable for grown-ups.
Color
#f3ee72
#f3ee72
hex
#f3ee72rgb
rgb(243, 238, 114)hsl
hsl(58, 84%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.929 0.146 106.8)Closest name: Buttercup Glow (#f1f458)Relative luminance 0.8142
Colors that go with #f3ee72
Charcoal, Crimson and Taupe 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 #f3ee72: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f3ee72 in 4 real palettes, including Diner and Tequila Sunrise, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #f3ee72 in 12 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Nursery, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Tomato #ff6347
shippedTomato is paired with #f3ee72 in 5 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Night Market, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryLilac sits directly opposite #f3ee72 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #f3ee72: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Pink #ffb6c1
shippedLight Pink is paired with #f3ee72 in 3 real palettes, including Pastel Pop and Macaron, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #f3ee72 in 3 real palettes, including Nursery and Macaron, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #f3ee72
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f3ee72 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.22:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.28:1 | 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 #f3ee72 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
#f3ee72 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f3ee72
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 #f3ee72 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f3ee72-bcbea2-4e99df-282d1f-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