Maple
Open in tool →The three colours a maple goes through in October, on a warm white — loud, seasonal, and readable because the type is near-black.
Color
#fab514
#fab514
hex
#fab514rgb
rgb(250, 181, 20)hsl
hsl(42, 96%, 53%)oklch
oklch(0.816 0.166 80.3)Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.5342
Colors that go with #fab514
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Champagne 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #fab514: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #fab514 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #fab514, as that palette's text colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #fab514: 6 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fab514 in 7 real palettes, including Tequila Sunrise and Tabloid, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #fab514 in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #fab514: 11 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #fab514: 7 real palettes, including Heatwave and Google's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #fab514
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fab514 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.8:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.68:1 | 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 #fab514 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fab514 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fab514
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 #fab514 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fab514-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?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