Color
#ec994b
#ec994brgb(236, 153, 75)hsl(29, 81%, 61%)oklch(0.753 0.136 61.3)Colors that go with #ec994b
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ec994b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #ec994b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #ec994b in 4 real palettes, including League of Legends's brand system and Sketch's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #ec994b in 7 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Open House, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #ec994b in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #ec994b in 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedCornflower Blue is paired with #ec994b in 5 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Webflow's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ec994b in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Tequila Sunrise, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #ec994b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ec994b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.28:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.22:1 | 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 #ec994b 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
#ec994b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ec994b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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