Lagoon
Open in tool →Turquoise and teal with a sand-yellow on white — shallow tropical water; the deep teal text is the reef.
Color
#fdeb9b
#fdeb9b
hex
#fdeb9brgb
rgb(253, 235, 155)hsl
hsl(49, 96%, 80%)oklch
oklch(0.937 0.101 97)Closest name: Bleached Sunflower (#fbe8a8)Relative luminance 0.8267
Colors that go with #fdeb9b
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Dark Orange 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 #fdeb9b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #fdeb9b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
analogousshippedDark Orange is #fdeb9b's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #fdeb9b: 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 #fdeb9b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #fdeb9b in 12 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Ember, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped39 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #fdeb9b, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #fdeb9b in 11 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #fdeb9b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fdeb9b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.2:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.53:1 | 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 #fdeb9b 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
#fdeb9b reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fdeb9b
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 #fdeb9b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fdeb9b-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