Sorbet
Open in tool →Peach, apricot and baby blue on white — a soft consumer-app palette that still gets AA text from a single dark ink.
Color
#f9d49f
#f9d49f
hex
#f9d49frgb
rgb(249, 212, 159)hsl
hsl(35, 88%, 80%)oklch
oklch(0.889 0.08 76.3)Closest name: Apricot Sherbet (#fbcd9f)Relative luminance 0.6973
Colors that go with #f9d49f
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 #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #f9d49f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #f9d49f: 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 #f9d49f, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #f9d49f: 6 real palettes, including Coastal and Diner, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #f9d49f: 9 real palettes, including Bramble and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #f9d49f: 6 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f9d49f in 11 real palettes, including Diner and Wells Fargo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #f9d49f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f9d49f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.41:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.95:1 | 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 #f9d49f 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
#f9d49f reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f9d49f
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 #f9d49f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f9d49f-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-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