Color

#ffec42

#ffec42
hex#ffec42
rgbrgb(255, 236, 66)
hslhsl(54, 100%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.931 0.178 102.7)
Closest name: Banana Bombshell (#f7e82e)Relative luminance 0.8164

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4255ff

#ff8e42 · #b4ff42

#42ffec · #ec42ff

Split-complementary

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#42b4ff · #8e42ff

#42ff8e · #4255ff · #ff42b4

Contrast

#ffec42 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.21:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #857700 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #615700 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #696969 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (7.31:1)
Aaon black
17.33:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ffec42 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

#ffec42 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffec42
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 #ffec42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ffec42-bebea2-4ea2df-292d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md