Color

#ebb642

#ebb642
hex#ebb642
rgbrgb(235, 182, 66)
hslhsl(41, 81%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.805 0.142 83.3)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.5151

Colors that go with #ebb642

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Cadet 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 #ebb642

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4277eb

#eb6142 · #cceb42

#42ebb6 · #b642eb

Split-complementary

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#42cceb · #6142eb

#42eb61 · #4277eb · #eb42cc

Contrast

#ebb642 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #986d10 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #73530c as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
11.3:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ebb642 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

#ebb642 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ebb642
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 #ebb642 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ebb642-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md