Color

#e4aa0c

#e4aa0c
hex#e4aa0c
rgbrgb(228, 170, 12)
hslhsl(44, 90%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.771 0.157 83.5)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4527

Colors that go with #e4aa0c

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep Sky 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 #e4aa0c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0c46e4

#e43e0c · #b1e40c

#0ce4aa · #aa0ce4

Split-complementary

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#0cb1e4 · #3e0ce4

#0ce43e · #0c46e4 · #e40cb1

Contrast

#e4aa0c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.09:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #967008 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #6f5306 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.25:1)
Aaon black
10.05:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e4aa0c 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

#e4aa0c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e4aa0c
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 #e4aa0c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e4aa0c-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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