Color

#ecad18

#ecad18
hex#ecad18
rgbrgb(236, 173, 24)
hslhsl(42, 85%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.786 0.158 81.3)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.4779

Colors that go with #ecad18

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1858ec

#ec4218 · #c2ec18

#18ecad · #ad18ec

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#18c2ec · #4218ec

#18ec42 · #1858ec · #ec18c2

Contrast

#ecad18 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.99:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #976d0c as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #715209 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.12:1)
Aaon black
10.56:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ecad18 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ecad18 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ecad18
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 #ecad18 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ecad18-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md