Lagoon
Open in tool →Turquoise and teal with a sand-yellow on white — shallow tropical water; the deep teal text is the reef.
Color
#fced97
#fced97
hex
#fced97rgb
rgb(252, 237, 151)hsl
hsl(51, 94%, 79%)oklch
oklch(0.939 0.108 99.6)Closest name: Banana Cream (#fff49c)Relative luminance 0.835
Colors that go with #fced97
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Goldenrod 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 #fced97: 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 #fced97: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Goldenrod #daa520
analogousshippedGoldenrod is #fced97's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #fced97 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 #fced97 in 7 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Gumroad's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #fced97, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped6 real palettes, including Nursery and Blush put Blush Pink beside #fced97, as the lead colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #fced97, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #fced97
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fced97 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.19:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.7:1 | 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 #fced97 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
#fced97 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fced97
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 #fced97 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fced97-c4c29c-4eaadf-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