Color

#e7b236

#e7b236
hex#e7b236
rgbrgb(231, 178, 54)
hslhsl(42, 79%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.792 0.146 84.1)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.491

Colors that go with #e7b236

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 #e7b236

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#366be7

#e75a36 · #c4e736

#36e7b2 · #b236e7

Split-complementary

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#36c4e7 · #5a36e7

#36e75a · #366be7 · #e736c4

Contrast

#e7b236 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.94:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #976f12 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #72540d as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.29:1)
Aaon black
10.82:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e7b236 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

#e7b236 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e7b236
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 #e7b236 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e7b236-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md