Color

#e1a009

#e1a009
hex#e1a009
rgbrgb(225, 160, 9)
hslhsl(42, 92%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.749 0.154 79.1)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4117

Colors that go with #e1a009

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and 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.

Real palettes that use #e1a009

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#094ae1

#e13509 · #b6e109

#09e1a0 · #a009e1

Split-complementary

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#09b6e1 · #3509e1

#09e135 · #094ae1 · #e109b6

Contrast

#e1a009 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.27:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #986c06 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #715005 as the text (7.36:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
9.23:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e1a009 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

#e1a009 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e1a009
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #e1a009 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e1a009-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md