Color

#dbad43

#dbad43
hex#dbad43
rgbrgb(219, 173, 67)
hslhsl(42, 68%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.771 0.132 84.9)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4535

Colors that go with #dbad43

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 #dbad43

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4370db

#db6143 · #bddb43

#43dbad · #ad43db

Split-complementary

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#43bddb · #6143db

#43db61 · #4370db · #db43bd

Contrast

#dbad43 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.09:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #926e1c as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #6f5415 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.26:1)
Aaon black
10.07:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dbad43 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

#dbad43 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dbad43
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 #dbad43 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dbad43-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md