Color

#e8b021

#e8b021
hex#e8b021
rgbrgb(232, 176, 33)
hslhsl(43, 81%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.788 0.155 84.2)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.4832

Colors that go with #e8b021

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 #e8b021

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#215ae8

#e84c21 · #bde821

#21e8b0 · #b021e8

Split-complementary

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#21bde8 · #4c21e8

#21e84c · #215ae8 · #e821bd

Contrast

#e8b021 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #946e10 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #6f530c as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.19:1)
Aaon black
10.66:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e8b021 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

#e8b021 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e8b021
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 #e8b021 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e8b021-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md