Lagoon
Open in tool →Turquoise and teal with a sand-yellow on white — shallow tropical water; the deep teal text is the reef.
Khaki hex code
Khaki
#f0e68c
hex
#f0e68crgb
rgb(240, 230, 140)hsl
hsl(54, 77%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.913 0.112 102.8)Relative luminance 0.7701
Khaki is a very pale, moderately saturated yellow — #f0e68c, rgb(240, 230, 140), hue 54° at 77% saturation. The colours that go with khaki are Charcoal, Sky Blue and Lilac — each with the reason below, and the real palettes that pair them. It fails AA as text on white (1.28:1) but passes on black at 16.4:1 — a dark-mode colour, or a fill with dark type on it. 1 curated palette is built around it.
Colors that go with Khaki
Charcoal, Sky Blue and Lilac 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 Khaki: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of Khaki: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite Khaki 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 Khaki, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with Khaki: 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with Khaki: 4 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with Khaki in 10 real palettes, including Lay's's brand system and Diner, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to Khaki in 9 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and BrandSweets's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use Khaki
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Khaki as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.28:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.4:1 | 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 Khaki 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
Khaki reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around Khaki
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 #f0e68c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f0e68c-bebea2-4ea2df-292d1f-f1ede9?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