Color

#efb52e

#efb52e
hex#efb52e
rgbrgb(239, 181, 46)
hslhsl(42, 86%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.806 0.154 83.1)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.516

Colors that go with #efb52e

Charcoal, Cornflower 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 #efb52e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2e68ef

#ef552e · #c9ef2e

#2eefb5 · #b52eef

Split-complementary

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#2ec9ef · #552eef

#2eef55 · #2e68ef · #ef2ec9

Contrast

#efb52e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #986e0b as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #725209 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
11.32:1passpasspassPasses 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 #efb52e 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

#efb52e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #efb52e
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 #efb52e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/efb52e-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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