Color

#e8a426

#e8a426
hex#e8a426
rgbrgb(232, 164, 38)
hslhsl(39, 81%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.765 0.151 76.7)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4385

Colors that go with #e8a426

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 #e8a426

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#266ae8

#e84326 · #cbe826

#26e8a4 · #a426e8

Split-complementary

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#26cbe8 · #4326e8

#26e843 · #266ae8 · #e826cb

Contrast

#e8a426 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.15:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9d6c10 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #734f0c as the text (7.36:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
9.77:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e8a426 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

#e8a426 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e8a426
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 #e8a426 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e8a426-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md