Tide Pool
Open in tool →Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
Color
#fea26d
#fea26d
hex
#fea26drgb
rgb(254, 162, 109)hsl
hsl(22, 99%, 71%)oklch
oklch(0.794 0.129 50)Closest name: Butternut (#ffa177)Relative luminance 0.4802
Colors that go with #fea26d
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cadet Blue 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 #fea26d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #fea26d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #fea26d in 4 real palettes, including Open House and Coastal, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #fea26d in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Coffee Bar, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #fea26d in 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Desert Road, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #fea26d in 5 real palettes, including Campus and Open House, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #fea26d in 4 real palettes, including Playground and PostHog's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #fea26d in 5 real palettes, including Golden Hour and Velvet, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #fea26d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fea26d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.98:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.6:1 | 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 #fea26d as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fea26d reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fea26d
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 #fea26d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fea26d-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?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