Arcade
Open in tool →Hot pink, cyan and acid yellow on near-black — cabinet-glow neon; the black surface is what makes the colours light up.
Color
#fdf90d
#fdf90d
hex
#fdf90drgb
rgb(253, 249, 13)hsl
hsl(59, 98%, 52%)oklch
oklch(0.954 0.205 108.5)Closest name: Banana King (#fffb08)Relative luminance 0.8866
Colors that go with #fdf90d
Taupe, Lilac and Charcoal 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.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #fdf90d in 4 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Citrus Grove, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryLilac sits directly opposite #fdf90d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #fdf90d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fdf90d in 3 real palettes, including Tequila Sunrise and Tabloid, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Violet #ee82ee
split-complementViolet is a split-complement of #fdf90d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #fdf90d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Pink #ff1493
shippedDeep Pink is paired with #fdf90d in two real palettes: Arcade and Night Market, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #fdf90d in two real palettes: Streetwear and Electric Lime, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #fdf90d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fdf90d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.12:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 18.73:1 | 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 #fdf90d 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
#fdf90d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fdf90d
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 #fdf90d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fdf90d-bbbea2-4e96df-272d1f-f1ede9?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