Diner
Open in tool →Cherry red, mint-teal and butter yellow — chrome-and-vinyl retro; the red does the work, the teal cools it.
Color
#f5d95crgb(245, 217, 92)hsl(49, 88%, 66%)oklch(0.886 0.146 96.6)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.
Deep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #f5d95c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac sits directly opposite #f5d95c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
4 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #f5d95c, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Cornflower Blue with #f5d95c: 4 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson is paired with #f5d95c in 8 real palettes, including Diner and Lay's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #f5d95c: 7 real palettes, including FIFA's brand system and LEGO's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Dodger Blue with #f5d95c: 5 real palettes, including Star Wars's brand system and Miro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
| #f5d95c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.4:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.96:1 | 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 #f5d95c as the background.
#f5d95c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #f5d95c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/f5d95c-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-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