Color

#e1a20e

#e1a20e
hex#e1a20e
rgbrgb(225, 162, 14)
hslhsl(42, 88%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.753 0.154 80.1)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4188

Colors that go with #e1a20e

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 #e1a20e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0e4ee1

#e1390e · #b7e10e

#0ee1a2 · #a20ee1

Split-complementary

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#0eb7e1 · #390ee1

#0ee139 · #0e4ee1 · #e10eb7

Contrast

#e1a20e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.24:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #996e0a as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #735307 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.19:1)
Aaon black
9.38:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e1a20e 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

#e1a20e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e1a20e
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 #e1a20e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e1a20e-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md