Color

#ebb537

#ebb537
hex#ebb537
rgbrgb(235, 181, 55)
hslhsl(42, 82%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.802 0.148 84)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.5099

Colors that go with #ebb537

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 #ebb537

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#376deb

#eb5b37 · #c7eb37

#37ebb5 · #b537eb

Split-complementary

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#37c7eb · #5b37eb

#37eb5b · #376deb · #eb37c7

Contrast

#ebb537 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #956c0f as the text (4.74:1)
  • AAA: use #6f510b as the text (7.35:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
11.2:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ebb537 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

#ebb537 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ebb537
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 #ebb537 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ebb537-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md