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
#eabd1a
#eabd1a
hex
#eabd1argb
rgb(234, 189, 26)hsl
hsl(47, 83%, 51%)oklch
oklch(0.815 0.162 90.8)Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.5396
Colors that go with #eabd1a
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 #eabd1a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #eabd1a 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 #eabd1a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #eabd1a, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #eabd1a in 7 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 #eabd1a in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Miro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #eabd1a: 11 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Walmart's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #eabd1a: 7 real palettes, including Google's brand system and Heatwave, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #eabd1a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #eabd1a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.78:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.79:1 | 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 #eabd1a as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#eabd1a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #eabd1a
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 #eabd1a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/eabd1a-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?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