Color

#dca01e

#dca01e
hex#dca01e
rgbrgb(220, 160, 30)
hslhsl(41, 76%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.744 0.147 80.2)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4045

Colors that go with #dca01e

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Cadet 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 #dca01e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1e5adc

#dc411e · #b9dc1e

#1edca0 · #a01edc

Split-complementary

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#1eb9dc · #411edc

#1edc41 · #1e5adc · #dc1eb9

Contrast

#dca01e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.31:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #996f15 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #70520f as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.13:1)
Aaon black
9.09:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dca01e 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

#dca01e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dca01e
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 #dca01e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dca01e-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md