Color

#ecad41

#ecad41
hex#ecad41
rgbrgb(236, 173, 65)
hslhsl(38, 82%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.788 0.141 77.2)
Closest name: Artisans Gold (#f2ab46)Relative luminance 0.481

Colors that go with #ecad41

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cadet 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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#4180ec

#ec5841 · #d5ec41

#41ecad · #ad41ec

Split-complementary

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#41d5ec · #5841ec

#41ec58 · #4180ec · #ec41d5

Contrast

#ecad41 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.98:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9e6a10 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #79510c as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.16:1)
Aaon black
10.62:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ecad41 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

#ecad41 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ecad41
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 #ecad41 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ecad41-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md