Color

#daa616

#daa616
hex#daa616
rgbrgb(218, 166, 22)
hslhsl(44, 82%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.753 0.15 85.2)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4224

Colors that go with #daa616

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 #daa616

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#164ada

#da4316 · #acda16

#16daa6 · #a616da

Split-complementary

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#16acda · #4316da

#16da43 · #164ada · #da16ac

Contrast

#daa616 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.22:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #95710f as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #6f550b as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.24:1)
Aaon black
9.45:1passpasspassPasses 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 #daa616 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

#daa616 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #daa616
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 #daa616 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/daa616-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md