Color

#d5a030

#d5a030
hex#d5a030
rgbrgb(213, 160, 48)
hslhsl(41, 66%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.737 0.137 81.6)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.395

Colors that go with #d5a030

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 #d5a030

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3064d5

#d54e30 · #b6d530

#30d5a0 · #a030d5

Split-complementary

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#30b6d5 · #4e30d5

#30d54e · #3064d5 · #d530b6

Contrast

#d5a030 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.36:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #946f1e as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #6e5217 as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.22:1)
Aaon black
8.9:1passpasspassPasses 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 #d5a030 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

#d5a030 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d5a030
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 #d5a030 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d5a030-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md