Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#fadc8e
#fadc8e
hex
#fadc8ergb
rgb(250, 220, 142)hsl
hsl(43, 92%, 77%)oklch
oklch(0.902 0.103 89.2)Closest name: Buttery Croissant (#f6e19c)Relative luminance 0.7346
Colors that go with #fadc8e
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 #fadc8e 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 #fadc8e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Garnet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #fadc8e, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #fadc8e: 6 real palettes, including Bramble and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fadc8e in 10 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 #fadc8e in 10 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and BrandSweets's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
analogousshippedDark Orange is #fadc8e's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Real palettes that use #fadc8e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fadc8e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.34:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.69:1 | 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 #fadc8e 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
Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Blossom
Open in tool →Cherry blossom, new leaf and pale primrose — a soft spring set for florists, weddings and anything that opens in April.
Fonts for this mood
#fadc8e reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fadc8e
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 #fadc8e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fadc8e-c4bd9c-62b2cb-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