Tabloid
Open in tool →Red, black and yellow on white is the loudest three-color system in print — use it when headlines are the product.
Color
#eed12b
#eed12b
hex
#eed12brgb
rgb(238, 209, 43)hsl
hsl(51, 85%, 55%)oklch
oklch(0.86 0.169 98.3)Closest name: Aurora (#ebd147)Relative luminance 0.6395
Colors that go with #eed12b
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.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #eed12b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #eed12b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Bumble's brand system put Blue beside #eed12b, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #eed12b in 8 real palettes, including Tabloid and Lay's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #eed12b: 9 real palettes, including LEGO's brand system and McDonald's's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #eed12b: 6 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and Star Wars's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including FIFA's brand system and Southwest Airlines's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #eed12b, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #eed12b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #eed12b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.52:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.79:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #eed12b 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
Garnet
Open in tool →Garnet, carnelian and citrine on a wine-black — the warm jewel set for spirits, theatre and jewellery itself.
Fonts for this mood
#eed12b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #eed12b
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #eed12b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/eed12b-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md