Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#f9db76
#f9db76
hex
#f9db76rgb
rgb(249, 219, 118)hsl
hsl(46, 92%, 72%)oklch
oklch(0.896 0.125 93.2)Closest name: Mustard Yellow (#ffdb58)Relative luminance 0.7211
Colors that go with #f9db76
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
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #f9db76: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #f9db76 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #f9db76: 4 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f9db76 in 5 real palettes, including Diner and Lay's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #f9db76 in 5 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and Farmers Market, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #f9db76: 7 real palettes, including FIFA's brand system and LEGO's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln put Peru beside #f9db76, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #f9db76
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f9db76 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.36:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.42:1 | 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 #f9db76 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
#f9db76 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f9db76
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 #f9db76 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f9db76-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?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