Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#ffe380
#ffe380
hex
#ffe380rgb
rgb(255, 227, 128)hsl
hsl(47, 100%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.919 0.123 94)Closest name: Beekeeper (#f6e491)Relative luminance 0.7776
Colors that go with #ffe380
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Brown 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 #ffe380: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #ffe380 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Garnet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #ffe380, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ffe380 in 8 real palettes, including Lay's's brand system and Diner, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ffe380 in 8 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and BrandSweets's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
analogousshippedDark Orange is #ffe380's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #ffe380: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ffe380: 7 real palettes, including FIFA's brand system and Ikea's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ffe380
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ffe380 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.27:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.55:1 | 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 #ffe380 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
#ffe380 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffe380
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 #ffe380 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ffe380-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?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