Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#fed97b
#fed97b
hex
#fed97brgb
rgb(254, 217, 123)hsl
hsl(43, 98%, 74%)oklch
oklch(0.897 0.121 88.4)Closest name: Beekeeper (#f6e491)Relative luminance 0.7213
Colors that go with #fed97b
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep Sky 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.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #fed97b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #fed97b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fed97b in 5 real palettes, including Diner and Lay's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #fed97b in 5 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and Farmers Market, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #fed97b: 6 real palettes, including FIFA's brand system and Ikea's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #fed97b in 4 real palettes, including Trailhead and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #fed97b in 4 real palettes, including Streetwear and Heatwave, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #fed97b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fed97b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.36:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.43:1 | 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 #fed97b 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
Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Meadow
Open in tool →Fresh green, buttercup and a wildflower pink — spring at full saturation; the leaf-dark text does the anchoring.
Fonts for this mood
#fed97b reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fed97b
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 #fed97b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fed97b-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?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