Color

#fdca81

#fdca81
hex#fdca81
rgbrgb(253, 202, 129)
hslhsl(35, 97%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.868 0.108 75.5)
Closest name: Apricot Sherbet (#fbcd9f)Relative luminance 0.6471

Colors that go with #fdca81

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.

Real palettes that use #fdca81

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#81b5fd

#fd8c81 · #f3fd81

#81fdca · #ca81fd

Split-complementary

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#81f3fd · #8c81fd

#81fd8c · #81b5fd · #fd81f3

Contrast

#fdca81 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ab6503 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #7e4a02 as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #595959 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (7.21:1)
Aaon black
13.94:1passpasspassPasses 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 #fdca81 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

#fdca81 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #fdca81
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 #fdca81 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/fdca81-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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