Meadow
Open in tool →Fresh green, buttercup and a wildflower pink — spring at full saturation; the leaf-dark text does the anchoring.
Color
#ecd979
#ecd979
hex
#ecd979rgb
rgb(236, 217, 121)hsl
hsl(50, 75%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.881 0.119 98.4)Closest name: Ancient Treasure (#e7d082)Relative luminance 0.6884
Colors that go with #ecd979
Charcoal, Lilac and Cornflower 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.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #ecd979 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #ecd979: 4 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ecd979 in 8 real palettes, including Diner and Wells Fargo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ecd979 in 6 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and Farmers Market, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #ecd979: 4 real palettes, including Prime Video's brand system and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ecd979: 8 real palettes, including FIFA's brand system and McDonald's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #ecd979: 5 real palettes, including Star Wars's brand system and Miro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ecd979
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ecd979 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.42:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.77:1 | 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 #ecd979 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
#ecd979 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ecd979
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 #ecd979 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ecd979-c4c29c-4eacdf-292d1f-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