Color

#e8a917

#e8a917
hex#e8a917
rgbrgb(232, 169, 23)
hslhsl(42, 82%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.774 0.156 80.8)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4559

Colors that go with #e8a917

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cadet 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1756e8

#e84117 · #bee817

#17e8a9 · #a917e8

Split-complementary

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#17bee8 · #4117e8

#17e841 · #1756e8 · #e817be

Contrast

#e8a917 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.08:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #956c0f as the text (4.74:1)
  • AAA: use #6f510b as the text (7.35:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
10.12:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e8a917 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#e8a917 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e8a917
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 #e8a917 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e8a917-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md