Color

#fde196

#fde196
hex#fde196
rgbrgb(253, 225, 150)
hslhsl(44, 96%, 79%)
oklchoklch(0.916 0.099 89.8)
Closest name: Buttery Croissant (#f6e19c)Relative luminance 0.7694

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96b1fd

#fdae96 · #e5fd96

#96fde1 · #e196fd

Split-complementary

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#96e5fd · #ae96fd

#96fdae · #96b1fd · #fd96e5

Contrast

#fde196 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #966f03 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #6e5102 as the text (7.39:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #636363 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #474747 (7.25:1)
Aaon black
16.39:1passpasspassPasses 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 #fde196 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

#fde196 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #fde196
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #fde196 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/fde196-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md