Color

#d8aa2c

#d8aa2c
hex#d8aa2c
rgbrgb(216, 170, 44)
hslhsl(44, 69%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.76 0.143 87)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4353

Colors that go with #d8aa2c

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

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#2c5ad8

#d8542c · #b0d82c

#2cd8aa · #aa2cd8

Split-complementary

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#2cb0d8 · #542cd8

#2cd854 · #2c5ad8 · #d82cb0

Contrast

#d8aa2c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.16:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8e6f1a as the text (4.73:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5414 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
9.71:1passpasspassPasses 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 #d8aa2c 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

#d8aa2c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d8aa2c
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 #d8aa2c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d8aa2c-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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