Tequila Sunrise
Open in tool →Red through orange to yellow — the poured-drink gradient as flat tokens; use it left-to-right, never all at once.
Color
#fda726rgb(253, 167, 38)hsl(36, 98%, 57%)oklch(0.795 0.163 70.3)Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cadet 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 is the body-text near-black for #fda726: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #fda726 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #fda726: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #fda726, as that palette's text colour.
Designers have shipped Cornflower Blue with #fda726: 6 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson is paired with #fda726 in 6 real palettes, including Tequila Sunrise and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #fda726: 6 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Campus, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Dodger Blue with #fda726: 4 real palettes, including PostHog's brand system and Heatwave, as the lead colour.
| #fda726 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.96:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.73:1 | 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 #fda726 as the background.
#fda726 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #fda726 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/fda726-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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