Tequila Sunrise
Open in tool →Red through orange to yellow — the poured-drink gradient as flat tokens; use it left-to-right, never all at once.
Color
#fddd3f
#fddd3f
hex
#fddd3frgb
rgb(253, 221, 63)hsl
hsl(50, 98%, 62%)oklch
oklch(0.899 0.168 97.1)Closest name: Angel’s Trumpet (#f6dd34)Relative luminance 0.7295
Colors that go with #fddd3f
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Crimson 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 #fddd3f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #fddd3f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fddd3f in 5 real palettes, including Tequila Sunrise and Lay's's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #fddd3f in 4 real palettes, including Streetwear and Heatwave, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #fddd3f in 11 real palettes, including Citrus Grove and Crayon Box, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Tomato #ff6347
shippedTomato is paired with #fddd3f in 6 real palettes, including Night Market and Crayon Box, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #fddd3f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #fddd3f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #fddd3f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fddd3f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.35:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.59:1 | 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 #fddd3f as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fddd3f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fddd3f
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 #fddd3f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fddd3f-c4c29c-4eacdf-292d1f-f1ece9?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