Color

#e5950b

#e5950b
hex#e5950b
rgbrgb(229, 149, 11)
hslhsl(38, 91%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.733 0.156 71)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.3818

Colors that go with #e5950b

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 #e5950b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0b5be5

#e5280b · #c8e50b

#0be595 · #950be5

Split-complementary

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#0bc8e5 · #280be5

#0be528 · #0b5be5 · #e50bc8

Contrast

#e5950b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.43:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a16908 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #7a4f06 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.01:1)
Aaon black
8.64:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e5950b as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#e5950b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e5950b
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 #e5950b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e5950b-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md