Color

#ffe499

#ffe499
hex#ffe499
rgbrgb(255, 228, 153)
hslhsl(44, 100%, 80%)
oklchoklch(0.924 0.098 90.5)
Closest name: Buttery Croissant (#f6e19c)Relative luminance 0.7905

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99b4ff

#ffb199 · #e7ff99

#99ffe4 · #e499ff

Split-complementary

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#99e7ff · #b199ff

#99ffb1 · #99b4ff · #ff99e7

Contrast

#ffe499 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.25:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #946c00 as the text (4.77:1)
  • AAA: use #705200 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #666666 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (7.09:1)
Aaon black
16.81:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ffe499 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#ffe499 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffe499
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 #ffe499 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ffe499-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md