Color

#dca218

#dca218
hex#dca218
rgbrgb(220, 162, 24)
hslhsl(42, 80%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.748 0.149 81.8)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4112

Colors that go with #dca218

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.

Real palettes that use #dca218

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1853dc

#dc4018 · #b5dc18

#18dca2 · #a218dc

Split-complementary

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#18b5dc · #4018dc

#18dc40 · #1853dc · #dc18b5

Contrast

#dca218 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #976f11 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #6e510c as the text (7.38:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
9.22:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dca218 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

#dca218 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dca218
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 #dca218 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dca218-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md