Color

#d8a52c

#d8a52c
hex#d8a52c
rgbrgb(216, 165, 44)
hslhsl(42, 69%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.75 0.141 83.9)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4169

Colors that go with #d8a52c

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 #d8a52c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2c60d8

#d84e2c · #b6d82c

#2cd8a5 · #a52cd8

Split-complementary

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#2cb6d8 · #4e2cd8

#2cd84e · #2c60d8 · #d82cb6

Contrast

#d8a52c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.25:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #936f1b as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #705515 as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
9.34:1passpasspassPasses 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 #d8a52c 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

#d8a52c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d8a52c
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 #d8a52c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d8a52c-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md