Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#fbd983
#fbd983
hex
#fbd983rgb
rgb(251, 217, 131)hsl
hsl(43, 94%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.896 0.112 88.5)Closest name: Beekeeper (#f6e491)Relative luminance 0.7177
Colors that go with #fbd983
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 #fbd983 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 #fbd983: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #fbd983 in 4 real palettes, including Garnet and Velvet, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fbd983 in 5 real palettes, including Diner and Lay's's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #fbd983 in 8 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and BrandSweets's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #fbd983 in 6 real palettes, including FIFA's brand system and Walmart's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #fbd983 in 4 real palettes, including Velvet and Blush, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #fbd983
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fbd983 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.37:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.35:1 | 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 #fbd983 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
#fbd983 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fbd983
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 #fbd983 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fbd983-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