Color

#db9e1a

#db9e1a
hex#db9e1a
rgbrgb(219, 158, 26)
hslhsl(41, 79%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.739 0.148 79.7)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.3959

Colors that go with #db9e1a

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 #db9e1a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1a57db

#db3d1a · #b8db1a

#1adb9e · #9e1adb

Split-complementary

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#1ab8db · #3d1adb

#1adb3d · #1a57db · #db1ab8

Contrast

#db9e1a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.35:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #976d12 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #72520d as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.24:1)
Aaon black
8.92:1passpasspassPasses 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 #db9e1a 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

#db9e1a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #db9e1a
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 #db9e1a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/db9e1a-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md