Lagoon
Open in tool →Turquoise and teal with a sand-yellow on white — shallow tropical water; the deep teal text is the reef.
Color
#faea8e
#faea8e
hex
#faea8ergb
rgb(250, 234, 142)hsl
hsl(51, 92%, 77%)oklch
oklch(0.93 0.114 99.6)Closest name: Beekeeper (#f6e491)Relative luminance 0.8112
Colors that go with #faea8e
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Goldenrod 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 #faea8e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #faea8e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Goldenrod #daa520
analogousshippedGoldenrod is #faea8e's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #faea8e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #faea8e in 6 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Gumroad's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #faea8e, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #faea8e: 4 real palettes, including Diner and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #faea8e: 8 real palettes, including Bakery and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #faea8e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #faea8e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.22:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.22:1 | 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 #faea8e 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
#faea8e reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #faea8e
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 #faea8e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/faea8e-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-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