Color

#dba41a

#dba41a
hex#dba41a
rgbrgb(219, 164, 26)
hslhsl(43, 79%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.75 0.149 83.3)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4169

Colors that go with #dba41a

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 #dba41a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1a50db

#db441a · #b1db1a

#1adba4 · #a41adb

Split-complementary

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#1ab1db · #441adb

#1adb44 · #1a50db · #db1ab1

Contrast

#dba41a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.25:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #926e11 as the text (4.71:1)
  • AAA: use #6e520d as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
9.34:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dba41a 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

#dba41a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dba41a
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 #dba41a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dba41a-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md