Color

#dc991e

#dc991e
hex#dc991e
rgbrgb(220, 153, 30)
hslhsl(39, 76%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.731 0.146 75.8)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.3809

Colors that go with #dc991e

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1e60dc

#dc3a1e · #bfdc1e

#1edc99 · #991edc

Split-complementary

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#1ebfdc · #3a1edc

#1edc3a · #1e60dc · #dc1ebf

Contrast

#dc991e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #996a15 as the text (4.74:1)
  • AAA: use #755110 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.62:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dc991e 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

#dc991e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dc991e
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 #dc991e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dc991e-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md