Color

#e6a014

#e6a014
hex#e6a014
rgbrgb(230, 160, 20)
hslhsl(40, 84%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.755 0.155 76.5)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4202

Colors that go with #e6a014

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 #e6a014

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#145ae6

#e63714 · #c3e614

#14e6a0 · #a014e6

Split-complementary

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#14c3e6 · #3714e6

#14e637 · #145ae6 · #e614c3

Contrast

#e6a014 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.23:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9b6c0d as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #75520a as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.21:1)
Aaon black
9.4:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e6a014 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

#e6a014 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e6a014
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 #e6a014 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e6a014-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md