Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#fce88d
#fce88d
hex
#fce88drgb
rgb(252, 232, 141)hsl
hsl(49, 95%, 77%)oklch
oklch(0.928 0.114 97.3)Closest name: Beekeeper (#f6e491)Relative luminance 0.8033
Colors that go with #fce88d
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Lilac 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 #fce88d: 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 #fce88d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #fce88d 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 #fce88d in 5 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 #fce88d, as the supporting colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Garnet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #fce88d, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #fce88d: 4 real palettes, including Diner and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #fce88d: 8 real palettes, including Bakery and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #fce88d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fce88d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.23:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.07:1 | 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 #fce88d 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
#fce88d reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fce88d
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 #fce88d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fce88d-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-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