Ember
Open in tool →Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.
Color
#eac857
#eac857
hex
#eac857rgb
rgb(234, 200, 87)hsl
hsl(46, 78%, 63%)oklch
oklch(0.841 0.136 92.5)Closest name: Aurora (#ebd147)Relative luminance 0.5949
Colors that go with #eac857
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Lilac 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 #eac857: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #eac857: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #eac857 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #eac857, as that palette's text colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #eac857: 6 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #eac857 in 8 real palettes, including Diner and McDonald's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #eac857 in 5 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Miro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #eac857: 11 real palettes, including Walmart's brand system and McDonald's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #eac857
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #eac857 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.63:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.9:1 | 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 #eac857 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
#eac857 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #eac857
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 #eac857 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/eac857-c4bf9c-62adcb-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