Diner
Open in tool →Cherry red, mint-teal and butter yellow — chrome-and-vinyl retro; the red does the work, the teal cools it.
Color
#ecce5f
#ecce5f
hex
#ecce5frgb
rgb(236, 206, 95)hsl
hsl(47, 79%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.856 0.134 94.3)Closest name: Aurora (#ebd147)Relative luminance 0.628
Colors that go with #ecce5f
Charcoal, Lilac and Crimson 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.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #ecce5f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ecce5f in 5 real palettes, including Diner and Tabloid, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #ecce5f in 4 real palettes, including Velvet and Golden Hour, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #ecce5f in 6 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
shippedSky Blue is paired with #ecce5f in 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Pastel Pop, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #ecce5f in 8 real palettes, including Kiln and Noir Beauty, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #ecce5f in 21 real palettes, including Meadow and Polaroid, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ecce5f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.55:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.56:1 | 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 #ecce5f 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
#ecce5f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ecce5f
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #ecce5f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ecce5f-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md