Color
#fdc487
#fdc487rgb(253, 196, 135)hsl(31, 97%, 76%)oklch(0.858 0.101 67.7)Colors that go with #fdc487
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 #fdc487: 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 #fdc487 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 #fdc487 in 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Diner, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fdc487 in 4 real palettes, including Diner 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 #fdc487 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Farmers Market, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #fdc487 in 5 real palettes, including Velvet and Blush, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #fdc487 in 6 real palettes, including Trailhead and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #fdc487 in 4 real palettes, including Allbirds's brand system and Tide Pool, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #fdc487
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fdc487 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.56:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.42:1 | 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 #fdc487 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#fdc487 reads as warm, vivid, light. 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 #fdc487 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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