Color

#fcf259

#fcf259
hex#fcf259
rgbrgb(252, 242, 89)
hslhsl(56, 96%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.942 0.169 105.6)
Closest name: Buttercup Glow (#f1f458)Relative luminance 0.8492

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5a65fc

#fca05a · #b6fc5a

#5afcf1 · #f15afc

Split-complementary

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#5ab6fc · #a05afc

#5afca0 · #5a65fc · #fc5ab6

Contrast

#fcf259 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.17:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d7503 as the text (4.75:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5902 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #6b6b6b (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #4f4f4f (7.01:1)
Aaon black
17.98:1passpasspassPasses 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 #fcf259 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

#fcf259 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #fcf259
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #fcf259 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/fcf259-bdbea2-4e9edf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md