Lagoon
Open in tool →Turquoise and teal with a sand-yellow on white — shallow tropical water; the deep teal text is the reef.
Color
#fce997
#fce997
hex
#fce997rgb
rgb(252, 233, 151)hsl
hsl(49, 94%, 79%)oklch
oklch(0.931 0.104 96.7)Closest name: Beekeeper (#f6e491)Relative luminance 0.8121
Colors that go with #fce997
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #fce997: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #fce997 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 #fce997: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #fce997 in 6 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Ember, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #fce997, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped6 real palettes, including Nursery and Blush put Blush Pink beside #fce997, as the lead colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #fce997, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #fce997 in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #fce997
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fce997 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.22:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.24:1 | 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 #fce997 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
#fce997 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fce997
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 #fce997 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fce997-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