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Color
#dca038
#dca038
hex
#dca038rgb
rgb(220, 160, 56)hsl
hsl(38, 70%, 54%)oklch
oklch(0.745 0.136 77.1)Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4064
Colors that go with #dca038
Charcoal, Deep Sky 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #dca038: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #dca038 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including League of Legends's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #dca038, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #dca038: 6 real palettes, including Open House and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #dca038, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #dca038: 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #dca038: 5 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #dca038 in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #dca038
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #dca038 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.3:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.13:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #dca038 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
#dca038 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #dca038
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #dca038 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/dca038-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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