Blueprint
Open in tool →Cyan and indigo on navy is the developer-tool look; amber is the only warm note, so it always reads as 'attention'.
Color
#ffbd2e
#ffbd2e
hex
#ffbd2ergb
rgb(255, 189, 46)hsl
hsl(41, 100%, 59%)oklch
oklch(0.838 0.162 81.1)Closest name: Amber (#ffbf00)Relative luminance 0.5785
Colors that go with #ffbd2e
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cornflower 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 #ffbd2e: 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 #ffbd2e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #ffbd2e: 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ffbd2e in 7 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Wells Fargo's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ffbd2e in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Miro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ffbd2e: 11 real palettes, including Warner Bros.'s brand system and Walmart's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #ffbd2e: 7 real palettes, including Google's brand system and Heatwave, as the lead colour.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #ffbd2e in 4 real palettes, including Meadow and Ubereats's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ffbd2e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ffbd2e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.67:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.57:1 | 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 #ffbd2e as the background.
Brands using this color
- Southwest Airlinesaccent · #ffbf27 · Δ0.646
- Mastodon hosted on mastodon.socialaccent · #ffb900 · Δ1.281
- Googleaccent · #fbbc05 · Δ1.373
- Salesforceaccent · #fcc003 · Δ1.654
- Lemon Squeezyprimary · #fcc434 · Δ1.657
- Ahrefssecondary · #fac000 · Δ1.841
- Warner Bros.accent · #fec200 · Δ1.949
- Walmartaccent · #fcc422 · Δ1.963
Palettes built around it
Trailhead
Open in tool →Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.
Heatwave
Open in tool →Blaze orange and hot yellow with one cold blue — the high-noon palette; use the blue where the eye needs to rest.
Fonts for this mood
#ffbd2e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffbd2e
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 #ffbd2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ffbd2e-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-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