Color

#d99f20

#d99f20
hex#d99f20
rgbrgb(217, 159, 32)
hslhsl(41, 74%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.739 0.145 80.7)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.3965

Colors that go with #d99f20

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 #d99f20

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#205bd9

#d94220 · #b8d920

#20d99f · #9f20d9

Split-complementary

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#20b8d9 · #4220d9

#20d942 · #205bd9 · #d920b8

Contrast

#d99f20 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.35:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #976e17 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #6f5111 as the text (7.34:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.01:1)
Aaon black
8.93:1passpasspassPasses 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 #d99f20 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

#d99f20 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d99f20
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 #d99f20 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d99f20-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md