Color

#faad29

#faad29
hex#faad29
rgbrgb(250, 173, 41)
hslhsl(38, 95%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.802 0.159 74.5)
Closest name: orange (#ffa500)Relative luminance 0.5037

Colors that go with #faad29

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

Open in tool →

#2976fa

#fa4529 · #defa29

#29faad · #ad29fa

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#29defa · #4529fa

#29fa45 · #2976fa · #fa29de

Contrast

#faad29 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.9:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a46904 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #774d03 as the text (7.38:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.16:1)
Aaon black
11.07:1passpasspassPasses 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 #faad29 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#faad29 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #faad29
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 #faad29 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/faad29-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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