Color

#e79d08

#e79d08
hex#e79d08
rgbrgb(231, 157, 8)
hslhsl(40, 93%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.75 0.157 74.9)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4112

Colors that go with #e79d08

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 #e79d08

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0853e7

#e72e08 · #c2e708

#08e79d · #9d08e7

Split-complementary

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#08c2e7 · #2e08e7

#08e72e · #0853e7 · #e708c2

Contrast

#e79d08 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9d6b06 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #765004 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
9.22:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e79d08 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

#e79d08 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e79d08
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 #e79d08 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e79d08-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md