Color

#dc9909

#dc9909
hex#dc9909
rgbrgb(220, 153, 9)
hslhsl(41, 92%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.73 0.151 77.1)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.3802

Colors that go with #dc9909

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Burlywood 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 #dc9909

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#094cdc

#dc3009 · #b6dc09

#09dc99 · #9909dc

Split-complementary

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#09b6dc · #3009dc

#09dc30 · #094cdc · #dc09b6

Contrast

#dc9909 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9d6d07 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #765205 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.13:1)
Aaon black
8.6:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dc9909 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

#dc9909 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dc9909
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 #dc9909 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dc9909-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md