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
#fce869
#fce869
hex
#fce869rgb
rgb(252, 232, 105)hsl
hsl(52, 96%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.923 0.148 100.4)Closest name: Mustard Yellow (#ffdb58)Relative luminance 0.7943
Colors that go with #fce869
Charcoal, Lilac and 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #fce869: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #fce869 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #fce869, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #fce869: 4 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fce869 in 8 real palettes, including Lay's's brand system and Tequila Sunrise, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #fce869: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #fce869: 7 real palettes, including FIFA's brand system and Ikea's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #fce869: 5 real palettes, including Star Wars's brand system and Miro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #fce869
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fce869 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.24:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.89:1 | 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 #fce869 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fce869 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fce869
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 #fce869 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fce869-c4c39c-4ea7df-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