Color

#fdae12

#fdae12
hex#fdae12
rgbrgb(253, 174, 18)
hslhsl(40, 98%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.807 0.167 75.5)
Closest name: orange (#ffa500)Relative luminance 0.512

Colors that go with #fdae12

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1260fd

#fd3912 · #d5fd12

#12fdae · #ae12fd

Split-complementary

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#12d5fd · #3912fd

#12fd39 · #1260fd · #fd12d5

Contrast

#fdae12 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9d6902 as the text (4.71:1)
  • AAA: use #795101 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
11.24:1passpasspassPasses 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 #fdae12 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#fdae12 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #fdae12
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #fdae12 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/fdae12-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md