Color

#ffe042

#ffe042
hex#ffe042
rgbrgb(255, 224, 66)
hslhsl(50, 100%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.907 0.169 97.6)
Closest name: Angel’s Trumpet (#f6dd34)Relative luminance 0.7496

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4262ff

#ff8142 · #c0ff42

#42ffe0 · #e042ff

Split-complementary

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#42c0ff · #8142ff

#42ff81 · #4262ff · #ff42c0

Contrast

#ffe042 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.31:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8a7300 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #665500 as the text (7.33:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #636363 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #474747 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
15.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ffe042 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#ffe042 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffe042
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #ffe042 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ffe042-c4c29c-4eacdf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md