Color

#dca518

#dca518
hex#dca518
rgbrgb(220, 165, 24)
hslhsl(43, 80%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.753 0.15 83.6)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4219

Colors that go with #dca518

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 #dca518

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1850dc

#dc4318 · #b2dc18

#18dca5 · #a518dc

Split-complementary

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#18b2dc · #4318dc

#18dc43 · #1850dc · #dc18b2

Contrast

#dca518 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.22:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #936e10 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #6e520c as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.24:1)
Aaon black
9.44:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dca518 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

#dca518 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dca518
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 #dca518 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dca518-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md