Mint Chip
Open in tool →Mint and celadon with a peach accent — fresh without being clinical; the deep green text keeps it grounded.
Color
#ffcd9e
#ffcd9e
hex
#ffcd9ergb
rgb(255, 205, 158)hsl
hsl(29, 100%, 81%)oklch
oklch(0.881 0.083 64.6)Closest name: Apricot Sherbet (#fbcd9f)Relative luminance 0.6739
Colors that go with #ffcd9e
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
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #ffcd9e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #ffcd9e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Goldenrod #daa520
analogousshippedGoldenrod is #ffcd9e's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #ffcd9e, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ffcd9e: 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Diner, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ffcd9e: 7 real palettes, including Bramble and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ffcd9e in 11 real palettes, including Diner and Cartier's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ffcd9e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ffcd9e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.45:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.48:1 | 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 #ffcd9e 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
#ffcd9e reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffcd9e
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 #ffcd9e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ffcd9e-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?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