Color

#f8d40d

#f8d40d
hex#f8d40d
rgbrgb(248, 212, 13)
hslhsl(51, 94%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.874 0.179 96.5)
Closest name: gold (#ffd700)Relative luminance 0.6707

Colors that go with #f8d40d

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep 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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#0d30f8

#f85f0d · #a5f80d

#0df8d4 · #d40df8

Split-complementary

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#0da5f8 · #5f0df8

#0df85f · #0d30f8 · #f80da5

Contrast

#f8d40d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.46:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #867204 as the text (4.75:1)
  • AAA: use #635503 as the text (7.42:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #5c5c5c (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #404040 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
14.41:1passpasspassPasses 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 #f8d40d as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#f8d40d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #f8d40d
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #f8d40d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/f8d40d-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md