Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#ffe499
#ffe499
hex
#ffe499rgb
rgb(255, 228, 153)hsl
hsl(44, 100%, 80%)oklch
oklch(0.924 0.098 90.5)Closest name: Buttery Croissant (#f6e19c)Relative luminance 0.7905
Colors that go with #ffe499
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ffe499: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #ffe499 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #ffe499: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ffe499 in 6 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Ember, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #ffe499, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped6 real palettes, including Nursery and Blush put Blush Pink beside #ffe499, as the lead colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #ffe499, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ffe499: 7 real palettes, including Diner and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ffe499
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ffe499 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.25:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.81:1 | 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 #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.
Palettes built around it
Blossom
Open in tool →Cherry blossom, new leaf and pale primrose — a soft spring set for florists, weddings and anything that opens in April.
Lagoon
Open in tool →Turquoise and teal with a sand-yellow on white — shallow tropical water; the deep teal text is the reef.
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 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 #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=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md