Fresh Juice
Open in tool →Orange, mango and mint — a sugar rush; keep the type black so it stays legible under all that color.
Color
#f8d472
#f8d472
hex
#f8d472rgb
rgb(248, 212, 114)hsl
hsl(44, 91%, 71%)oklch
oklch(0.881 0.124 89.6)Closest name: Angry Pasta (#ffcc55)Relative luminance 0.6826
Colors that go with #f8d472
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.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #f8d472 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #f8d472: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f8d472 in 7 real palettes, including Diner and Wells Fargo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #f8d472 in 6 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and Farmers Market, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #f8d472: 10 real palettes, including FIFA's brand system and McDonald's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #f8d472: 6 real palettes, including Star Wars's brand system and Miro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including FIFA's brand system and American Eagle's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #f8d472, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #f8d472
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f8d472 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.43:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.65:1 | 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 #f8d472 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
Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Diner
Open in tool →Cherry red, mint-teal and butter yellow — chrome-and-vinyl retro; the red does the work, the teal cools it.
Lido
Open in tool →Pool blue, watermelon and sun on white — the poolside summer set; the deep teal text keeps it from going juvenile.
Meadow
Open in tool →Fresh green, buttercup and a wildflower pink — spring at full saturation; the leaf-dark text does the anchoring.
Fonts for this mood
#f8d472 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f8d472
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 #f8d472 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f8d472-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?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