Lagoon
Open in tool →Turquoise and teal with a sand-yellow on white — shallow tropical water; the deep teal text is the reef.
Color
#fde57c
#fde57c
hex
#fde57crgb
rgb(253, 229, 124)hsl
hsl(49, 97%, 74%)oklch
oklch(0.92 0.128 96.8)Closest name: khaki (#f0e68c)Relative luminance 0.7838
Colors that go with #fde57c
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 #fde57c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #fde57c 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 #fde57c in 8 real palettes, including Lay's's brand system and Diner, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #fde57c in 4 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and BrandSweets's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #fde57c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #fde57c: 7 real palettes, including FIFA's brand system and Ikea's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #fde57c: 5 real palettes, including Star Wars's brand system and Miro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #fde57c: 4 real palettes, including Ember and Tommy Hilfiger's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #fde57c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fde57c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.26:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.68:1 | 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 #fde57c as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fde57c reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fde57c
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 #fde57c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fde57c-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-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