Color

#edb940

#edb940
hex#edb940
rgbrgb(237, 185, 64)
hslhsl(42, 83%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.812 0.145 84.5)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.5307

Colors that go with #edb940

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 #edb940

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4074ed

#ed6240 · #cbed40

#40edb9 · #b940ed

Split-complementary

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#40cbed · #6240ed

#40ed62 · #4074ed · #ed40cb

Contrast

#edb940 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #956d0e as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #70520a as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4f4f4f (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.3:1)
Aaon black
11.61:1passpasspassPasses 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 #edb940 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

#edb940 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #edb940
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 #edb940 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/edb940-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md