Color

#d99d26

#d99d26
hex#d99d26
rgbrgb(217, 157, 38)
hslhsl(40, 70%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.735 0.142 78.9)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.3901

Colors that go with #d99d26

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 #d99d26

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2662d9

#d94426 · #bbd926

#26d99d · #9d26d9

Split-complementary

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#26bbd9 · #4426d9

#26d944 · #2662d9 · #d926bb

Contrast

#d99d26 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.39:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #986e1b as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #715214 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.8:1passpasspassPasses 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 #d99d26 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

#d99d26 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d99d26
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 #d99d26 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d99d26-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md