Color

#eeb311

#eeb311
hex#eeb311
rgbrgb(238, 179, 17)
hslhsl(44, 87%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.8 0.162 84.1)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.5046

Colors that go with #eeb311

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 #eeb311

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#114cee

#ee4411 · #bbee11

#11eeb3 · #b311ee

Split-complementary

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#11bbee · #4411ee

#11ee44 · #114cee · #ee11bb

Contrast

#eeb311 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #946f0a as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #6e5208 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.17:1)
Aaon black
11.09:1passpasspassPasses 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 #eeb311 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#eeb311 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #eeb311
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 #eeb311 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/eeb311-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md