Color

#da9d01

#da9d01
hex#da9d01
rgbrgb(218, 157, 1)
hslhsl(43, 99%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.735 0.152 80.6)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.3902

Colors that go with #da9d01

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 #da9d01

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#013fda

#da3001 · #abda01

#01da9d · #9d01da

Split-complementary

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#01abda · #3001da

#01da30 · #013fda · #da01ab

Contrast

#da9d01 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.39:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #986d01 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #705001 as the text (7.4:1)
  • 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 #da9d01 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

#da9d01 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #da9d01
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 #da9d01 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/da9d01-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md