Color

#dca31e

#dca31e
hex#dca31e
rgbrgb(220, 163, 30)
hslhsl(42, 76%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.75 0.148 82)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.415

Colors that go with #dca31e

Charcoal, Deep Sky 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 #dca31e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1e57dc

#dc441e · #b6dc1e

#1edca3 · #a31edc

Split-complementary

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#1eb6dc · #441edc

#1edc44 · #1e57dc · #dc1eb6

Contrast

#dca31e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.26:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #946e14 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #70530f as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
9.3:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dca31e 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

#dca31e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dca31e
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 #dca31e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dca31e-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md