Color

#e8a217

#e8a217
hex#e8a217
rgbrgb(232, 162, 23)
hslhsl(40, 82%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.761 0.155 76.7)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4306

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#175de8

#e83a17 · #c5e817

#17e8a2 · #a217e8

Split-complementary

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#17c5e8 · #3a17e8

#17e83a · #175de8 · #e817c5

Contrast

#e8a217 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.18:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #996b0f as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #74510b as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
9.61:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e8a217 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

#e8a217 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e8a217
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #e8a217 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e8a217-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md