Color

#edc596

#edc596
hex#edc596
rgbrgb(237, 197, 150)
hslhsl(32, 71%, 76%)
oklchoklch(0.847 0.077 71)
Closest name: Baba Ganoush (#eebb88)Relative luminance 0.6014

Colors that go with #edc596

Charcoal, 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.

Real palettes that use #edc596

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96bfed

#ed9996 · #eaed96

#96edc5 · #c596ed

Split-complementary

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#96eaed · #9996ed

#96ed99 · #96bfed · #ed96ea

Contrast

#edc596 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.61:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a6651c as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #7e4d15 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #545454 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #383838 (7.27:1)
Aaon black
13.03:1passpasspassPasses 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 #edc596 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

#edc596 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #edc596
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 #edc596 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/edc596-c4b69c-62c5cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md