Diner
Open in tool →Cherry red, mint-teal and butter yellow — chrome-and-vinyl retro; the red does the work, the teal cools it.
Color
#ebd960
#ebd960
hex
#ebd960rgb
rgb(235, 217, 96)hsl
hsl(52, 78%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.877 0.142 100.9)Closest name: Banana Drama (#f1d548)Relative luminance 0.6813
Colors that go with #ebd960
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 #ebd960: 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 #ebd960: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #ebd960 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #ebd960: 5 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ebd960 in 5 real palettes, including Diner and Lay's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ebd960: 6 real palettes, including FIFA's brand system and Ikea's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #ebd960: 4 real palettes, including Nursery and Sorbet, as the supporting colour.
Red #ff0000
shippedRed is paired with #ebd960 in 4 real palettes, including Paddle's brand system and Phantom: The money app that'll take you placesLogo PhantomLogo PhantomLogo Phantom's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ebd960
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ebd960 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.44:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.63:1 | 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 #ebd960 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
#ebd960 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ebd960
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 #ebd960 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ebd960-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-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