Color

#fdb23a

#fdb23a
hex#fdb23a
rgbrgb(253, 178, 58)
hslhsl(37, 98%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.816 0.154 74.3)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.5303

Colors that go with #fdb23a

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 →

#3a85fd

#fd513a · #e6fd3a

#3afdb2 · #b23afd

Split-complementary

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#3ae6fd · #513afd

#3afd51 · #3a85fd · #fd3ae6

Contrast

#fdb23a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a76702 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #7e4e01 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4f4f4f (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.29:1)
Aaon black
11.61:1passpasspassPasses 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 #fdb23a as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#fdb23a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #fdb23a
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 #fdb23a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/fdb23a-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md