Color

#e2a522

#e2a522
hex#e2a522
rgbrgb(226, 165, 34)
hslhsl(41, 77%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.76 0.149 80.3)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4319

Colors that go with #e2a522

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 #e2a522

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#225fe2

#e24522 · #bfe222

#22e2a5 · #a522e2

Split-complementary

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#22bfe2 · #4522e2

#22e245 · #225fe2 · #e222bf

Contrast

#e2a522 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.18:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #996f14 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #71520f as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
9.64:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e2a522 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

#e2a522 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e2a522
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 #e2a522 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e2a522-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md