Maple
Open in tool →The three colours a maple goes through in October, on a warm white — loud, seasonal, and readable because the type is near-black.
Color
#eab82e
#eab82e
hex
#eab82ergb
rgb(234, 184, 46)hsl
hsl(44, 82%, 55%)oklch
oklch(0.806 0.153 87)Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.5197
Colors that go with #eab82e
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #eab82e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #eab82e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #eab82e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #eab82e: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #eab82e, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #eab82e in 8 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Tabloid, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #eab82e in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #eab82e: 11 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Gopro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #eab82e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #eab82e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.84:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.39:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #eab82e as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#eab82e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #eab82e
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #eab82e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/eab82e-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md