Color

#dc9538

#dc9538
hex#dc9538
rgbrgb(220, 149, 56)
hslhsl(34, 70%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.725 0.135 69.4)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.37

Colors that go with #dc9538

Charcoal, Cornflower 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 #dc9538

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#387fdc

#dc4338 · #d1dc38

#38dc95 · #9538dc

Split-complementary

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#38d1dc · #4338dc

#38dc43 · #387fdc · #dc38d1

Contrast

#dc9538 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a0671c as the text (4.72:1)
  • AAA: use #794e15 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
8.4:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dc9538 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

#dc9538 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dc9538
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 #dc9538 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dc9538-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md