Color

#fec16d

#fec16d
hex#fec16d
rgbrgb(254, 193, 109)
hslhsl(35, 99%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.85 0.123 73.6)
Closest name: Apricot (#ffb16d)Relative luminance 0.6031

Colors that go with #fec16d

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Champagne 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.

Real palettes that use #fec16d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#6ca9fe

#fe786c · #f2fe6c

#6cfec1 · #c16cfe

Split-complementary

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#6cf2fe · #786cfe

#6cfe78 · #6ca9fe · #fe6cf2

Contrast

#fec16d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.61:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ad6501 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #7f4a01 as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #545454 (4.71:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #383838 (7.29:1)
Aaon black
13.06:1passpasspassPasses 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 #fec16d 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

#fec16d reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #fec16d
live endpoint

Point 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.

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

analyze #fec16d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/fec16d-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md