Color

#da8e01

#da8e01
hex#da8e01
rgbrgb(218, 142, 1)
hslhsl(39, 99%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.707 0.152 71.6)
Closest name: À l’Orange (#f2850d)Relative luminance 0.3425

Colors that go with #da8e01

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and 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 #da8e01

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#014dda

#da2201 · #bada01

#01da8e · #8e01da

Split-complementary

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#01bada · #2201da

#01da22 · #014dda · #da01ba

Contrast

#da8e01 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a26a01 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #7a4f01 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7:1)
Aaon black
7.85:1passpasspassPasses 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 #da8e01 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#da8e01 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #da8e01
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 #da8e01 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/da8e01-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md