Lagoon
Open in tool →Turquoise and teal with a sand-yellow on white — shallow tropical water; the deep teal text is the reef.
Color
#f4ec95
#f4ec95
hex
#f4ec95rgb
rgb(244, 236, 149)hsl
hsl(55, 81%, 77%)oklch
oklch(0.93 0.108 103.7)Closest name: khaki (#f0e68c)Relative luminance 0.8139
Colors that go with #f4ec95
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 #f4ec95: 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 #f4ec95: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #f4ec95 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 #f4ec95 in 6 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Gumroad's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Nursery and Blush put Blush Pink beside #f4ec95, as the lead colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #f4ec95, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #f4ec95 in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #f4ec95: 6 real palettes, including Diner and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #f4ec95
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f4ec95 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 #f4ec95 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
#f4ec95 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f4ec95
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 #f4ec95 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f4ec95-bdbea2-4ea0df-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