Color

#db9224

#db9224
hex#db9224
rgbrgb(219, 146, 36)
hslhsl(36, 72%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.717 0.144 71.1)
Closest name: À l’Orange (#f2850d)Relative luminance 0.3575

Colors that go with #db9224

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Amber 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 #db9224

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#246ddb

#db3624 · #c9db24

#24db92 · #9224db

Split-complementary

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#24c9db · #3624db

#24db36 · #246ddb · #db24c9

Contrast

#db9224 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.58:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9e691a as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #764f13 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
8.15:1passpasspassPasses 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 #db9224 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

#db9224 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #db9224
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 #db9224 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/db9224-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md