Mid-Century
Open in tool →Tangerine, teal and mustard on cream — the 1960s lounge trio, one of the few retro palettes with real hue contrast.
Color
#eab93ergb(234, 185, 62)hsl(43, 80%, 58%)oklch(0.809 0.145 86.1)Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cornflower 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 is the body-text near-black for #eab93e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #eab93e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Cornflower Blue sits directly opposite #eab93e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue is paired with #eab93e in 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Open House, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne is paired with #eab93e in 4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson is paired with #eab93e in 5 real palettes, including Tabloid and Tequila Sunrise, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green is paired with #eab93e in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim is paired with #eab93e in 5 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Warner Bros.'s brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
| #eab93e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.82:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.51:1 | 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 #eab93e as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#eab93e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #eab93e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/eab93e-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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