Crayon Box
Open in tool →Red, teal and yellow at crayon saturation — joyful, but on white with black type so it stays readable for grown-ups.
Color
#faed7a
#faed7a
hex
#faed7argb
rgb(250, 237, 122)hsl
hsl(54, 93%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.934 0.137 102.9)Closest name: khaki (#f0e68c)Relative luminance 0.823
Colors that go with #faed7a
Charcoal, Lilac and Crimson 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 #faed7a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #faed7a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #faed7a in 6 real palettes, including Lay's's brand system and Diner, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #faed7a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #faed7a: 5 real palettes, including FIFA's brand system and Ikea's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Mid-Century put Peru beside #faed7a, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #faed7a: 4 real palettes, including Resort and Polaroid, as the supporting colour.
Sienna #a0522d
shippedSienna shows up next to #faed7a in 4 real palettes, including Oatly's brand system and BrandSweets's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #faed7a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #faed7a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.2:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.46:1 | 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 #faed7a 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
#faed7a reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #faed7a
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 #faed7a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/faed7a-bebea2-4ea2df-292d1f-f1ede9?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