Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#fad689
#fad689
hex
#fad689rgb
rgb(250, 214, 137)hsl
hsl(41, 92%, 76%)oklch
oklch(0.89 0.104 85.3)Closest name: Buttery Croissant (#f6e19c)Relative luminance 0.7022
Colors that go with #fad689
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep Sky 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.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #fad689 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #fad689: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Garnet and Velvet put Brown beside #fad689, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fad689 in 8 real palettes, including Diner and Wells Fargo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #fad689 in 9 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #fad689: 9 real palettes, including FIFA's brand system and McDonald's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #fad689: 4 real palettes, including Star Wars's brand system and Miro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #fad689
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fad689 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.4:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.04:1 | 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 #fad689 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fad689 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fad689
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 #fad689 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fad689-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-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