Color

#da9d1b

#da9d1b
hex#da9d1b
rgbrgb(218, 157, 27)
hslhsl(41, 78%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.736 0.147 79.4)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.391

Colors that go with #da9d1b

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 #da9d1b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1b57da

#da3e1b · #b7da1b

#1bda9d · #9d1bda

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#1bb7da · #3e1bda

#1bda3e · #1b57da · #da1bb7

Contrast

#da9d1b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.38:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9a6f13 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #71520e as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.16:1)
Aaon black
8.82:1passpasspassPasses 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 #da9d1b 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

#da9d1b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #da9d1b
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 #da9d1b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/da9d1b-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md