Color

#e2a01d

#e2a01d
hex#e2a01d
rgbrgb(226, 160, 29)
hslhsl(40, 77%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.751 0.15 77.6)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.414

Colors that go with #e2a01d

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 #e2a01d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1d5fe2

#e23e1d · #c1e21d

#1de2a0 · #a01de2

Split-complementary

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#1dc1e2 · #3e1de2

#1de23e · #1d5fe2 · #e21dc1

Contrast

#e2a01d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.26:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #996d14 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #71500f as the text (7.35:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
9.28:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e2a01d 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

#e2a01d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e2a01d
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 #e2a01d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e2a01d-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md