Color

#d79b23

#d79b23
hex#d79b23
rgbrgb(215, 155, 35)
hslhsl(40, 72%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.729 0.142 78.8)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.3801

Colors that go with #d79b23

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 →

#235fd7

#d74123 · #b9d723

#23d79b · #9b23d7

Split-complementary

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#23b9d7 · #4123d7

#23d741 · #235fd7 · #d723b9

Contrast

#d79b23 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9a6f19 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #725213 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.13:1)
Aaon black
8.6:1passpasspassPasses 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 #d79b23 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

#d79b23 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d79b23
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 #d79b23 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d79b23-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md