Color

#eeb417

#eeb417
hex#eeb417
rgbrgb(238, 180, 23)
hslhsl(44, 86%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.802 0.161 84.5)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.5088

Colors that go with #eeb417

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1750ee

#ee4917 · #bbee17

#17eeb4 · #b417ee

Split-complementary

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#17bbee · #4917ee

#17ee49 · #1750ee · #ee17bb

Contrast

#eeb417 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #936f0b as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5208 as the text (7.34:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.72:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
11.18:1passpasspassPasses 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 #eeb417 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#eeb417 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #eeb417
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 #eeb417 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/eeb417-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md