Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#efbb62
#efbb62
hex
#efbb62rgb
rgb(239, 187, 98)hsl
hsl(38, 82%, 66%)oklch
oklch(0.822 0.122 79.1)Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.5477
Colors that go with #efbb62
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Light 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #efbb62: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #efbb62: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Sky Blue #87cefa
complementaryshippedLight Sky Blue sits directly opposite #efbb62 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #efbb62, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #efbb62: 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Open House, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #efbb62, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #efbb62: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #efbb62: 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #efbb62
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #efbb62 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.76:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.95:1 | 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 #efbb62 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
#efbb62 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #efbb62
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 #efbb62 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/efbb62-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?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