Mint Chip
Open in tool →Mint and celadon with a peach accent — fresh without being clinical; the deep green text keeps it grounded.
Color
#f9cd9f
#f9cd9f
hex
#f9cd9frgb
rgb(249, 205, 159)hsl
hsl(31, 88%, 80%)oklch
oklch(0.876 0.078 67.8)Closest name: Apricot Sherbet (#fbcd9f)Relative luminance 0.6631
Colors that go with #f9cd9f
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Goldenrod 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 #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #f9cd9f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Goldenrod #daa520
analogousshippedGoldenrod is #f9cd9f's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #f9cd9f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #f9cd9f, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #f9cd9f: 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Diner, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #f9cd9f: 8 real palettes, including Bramble and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #f9cd9f: 6 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Webflow's brand system, as the accent.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f9cd9f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.47:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.26:1 | 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 #f9cd9f 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
#f9cd9f reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f9cd9f
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 #f9cd9f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f9cd9f-c4b59c-62c7cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?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