Color

#ec9909

#ec9909
hex#ec9909
rgbrgb(236, 153, 9)
hslhsl(38, 93%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.749 0.16 70.7)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4064

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#095cec

#ec2709 · #ceec09

#09ec99 · #9909ec

Split-complementary

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#09ceec · #2709ec

#09ec27 · #095cec · #ec09ce

Contrast

#ec9909 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a26906 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #7b5004 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.16:1)
Aaon black
9.13:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ec9909 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#ec9909 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec9909
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #ec9909 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec9909-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md