Color

#edb226

#edb226
hex#edb226
rgbrgb(237, 178, 38)
hslhsl(42, 85%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.797 0.155 82.9)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.4999

Colors that go with #edb226

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep Sky 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.

Real palettes that use #edb226

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#2662ed

#ed4e26 · #c6ed26

#26edb2 · #b226ed

Split-complementary

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#26c6ed · #4e26ed

#26ed4e · #2662ed · #ed26c6

Contrast

#edb226 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #976d0c as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #715209 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.11:1)
Aaon black
11:1passpasspassPasses 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 #edb226 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

#edb226 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #edb226
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 #edb226 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/edb226-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md