Color

#ebb22d

#ebb22d
hex#ebb22d
rgbrgb(235, 178, 45)
hslhsl(42, 83%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.796 0.152 83.2)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.4969

Colors that go with #ebb22d

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 #ebb22d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2d66eb

#eb532d · #c5eb2d

#2debb2 · #b22deb

Split-complementary

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#2dc5eb · #532deb

#2deb53 · #2d66eb · #eb2dc5

Contrast

#ebb22d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.92:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #956d0e as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #70520a as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.07:1)
Aaon black
10.94:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ebb22d 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

#ebb22d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ebb22d
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 #ebb22d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ebb22d-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md