Sunset Boulevard
Open in tool →Coral, apricot and magenta on aubergine — the gradient sunset every event brand wants, decomposed into flat tokens.
Color
#fdae4e
#fdae4e
hex
#fdae4ergb
rgb(253, 174, 78)hsl
hsl(33, 98%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.81 0.143 68.3)Closest name: Artisans Gold (#f2ab46)Relative luminance 0.517
Colors that go with #fdae4e
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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #fdae4e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #fdae4e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #fdae4e in 4 real palettes, including Open House and Coastal, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #fdae4e in 5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Forest Floor, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #fdae4e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fdae4e in 6 real palettes, including Tequila Sunrise and Retro Pop, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #fdae4e in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #fdae4e in 5 real palettes, including Campus and Open House, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #fdae4e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fdae4e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.85:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.34:1 | 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 #fdae4e as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fdae4e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fdae4e
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 #fdae4e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fdae4e-c4b79c-62c4cb-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