Color

#f9ae01

#f9ae01
hex#f9ae01
rgbrgb(249, 174, 1)
hslhsl(42, 99%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.802 0.167 77.6)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.5041

Colors that go with #f9ae01

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cadet 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

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#014bf9

#f93301 · #c7f901

#01f9ae · #ae01f9

Split-complementary

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#01c7f9 · #3301f9

#01f933 · #014bf9 · #f901c7

Contrast

#f9ae01 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9d6e01 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #755201 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.17:1)
Aaon black
11.08:1passpasspassPasses 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 #f9ae01 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#f9ae01 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #f9ae01
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 #f9ae01 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/f9ae01-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md