Color

#dba43d

#dba43d
hex#dba43d
rgbrgb(219, 164, 61)
hslhsl(39, 69%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.752 0.133 79.6)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4195

Colors that go with #dba43d

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and 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 #dba43d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3d74db

#db553d · #c4db3d

#3ddba4 · #a43ddb

Split-complementary

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#3dc4db · #553ddb

#3ddb55 · #3d74db · #db3dc4

Contrast

#dba43d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.24:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #976c1c as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #745315 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.2:1)
Aaon black
9.39:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dba43d 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

#dba43d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dba43d
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 #dba43d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dba43d-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md