Color

#ecad36

#ecad36
hex#ecad36
rgbrgb(236, 173, 54)
hslhsl(39, 83%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.788 0.147 78.8)
Closest name: Artisans Gold (#f2ab46)Relative luminance 0.4799

Colors that go with #ecad36

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

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#3676ec

#ec5236 · #d1ec36

#36ecad · #ad36ec

Split-complementary

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#36d1ec · #5236ec

#36ec52 · #3676ec · #ec36d1

Contrast

#ecad36 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.98:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9f6c0f as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #75500b as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.15:1)
Aaon black
10.6:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ecad36 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

#ecad36 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ecad36
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 #ecad36 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ecad36-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md