Color

#fcb140

#fcb140
hex#fcb140
rgbrgb(252, 177, 64)
hslhsl(36, 97%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.813 0.151 73.2)
Closest name: Artisans Gold (#f2ab46)Relative luminance 0.5251

Colors that go with #fcb140

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cadet 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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#408bfc

#fc5340 · #e9fc40

#40fcb1 · #b140fc

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#40e9fc · #5340fc

#40fc53 · #408bfc · #fc40e9

Contrast

#fcb140 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.83:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a66403 as the text (4.72:1)
  • AAA: use #7e4c02 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.23:1)
Aaon black
11.5:1passpasspassPasses 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 #fcb140 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#fcb140 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #fcb140
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

›analyze #fcb140 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/fcb140-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md