Color

#e4a41b

#e4a41b
hex#e4a41b
rgbrgb(228, 164, 27)
hslhsl(41, 79%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.76 0.152 79.3)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4312

Colors that go with #e4a41b

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 #e4a41b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1b5be4

#e4401b · #bfe41b

#1be4a4 · #a41be4

Split-complementary

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#1bbfe4 · #401be4

#1be440 · #1b5be4 · #e41bbf

Contrast

#e4a41b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.18:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #976d12 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #72520d as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
9.62:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e4a41b 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

#e4a41b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e4a41b
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 #e4a41b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e4a41b-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md