Lagoon
Open in tool →Turquoise and teal with a sand-yellow on white — shallow tropical water; the deep teal text is the reef.
Color
#f4e68a
#f4e68a
hex
#f4e68argb
rgb(244, 230, 138)hsl
hsl(52, 83%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.917 0.114 100.7)Closest name: khaki (#f0e68c)Relative luminance 0.7766
Colors that go with #f4e68a
Charcoal, Sandy Brown and Sky Blue 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 #f4e68a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sandy Brown #f4a460
analogousshippedSandy Brown is #f4e68a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #f4e68a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #f4e68a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #f4e68a in 4 real palettes, including Garnet and Woodsmoke, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #f4e68a in 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Bakery, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedCornflower Blue is paired with #f4e68a in 4 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f4e68a in 7 real palettes, including Lay's's brand system and Diner, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #f4e68a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f4e68a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.27:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.53:1 | 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 #f4e68a 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
#f4e68a reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f4e68a
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 #f4e68a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f4e68a-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-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