Mid-Century
Open in tool →Tangerine, teal and mustard on cream — the 1960s lounge trio, one of the few retro palettes with real hue contrast.
Color
#e5b42e
#e5b42e
hex
#e5b42ergb
rgb(229, 180, 46)hsl
hsl(44, 78%, 54%)oklch
oklch(0.793 0.15 86.9)Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.495
Colors that go with #e5b42e
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #e5b42e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #e5b42e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #e5b42e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #e5b42e, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #e5b42e: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #e5b42e, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #e5b42e in 5 real palettes, including Tequila Sunrise and Tabloid, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #e5b42e in 5 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #e5b42e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e5b42e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.93:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.9:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #e5b42e 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
#e5b42e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e5b42e
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #e5b42e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e5b42e-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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