Color

#dca72e

#dca72e
hex#dca72e
rgbrgb(220, 167, 46)
hslhsl(42, 71%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.758 0.142 83.1)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4305

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2e62dc

#dc502e · #b9dc2e

#2edca7 · #a72edc

Split-complementary

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#2eb9dc · #502edc

#2edc50 · #2e62dc · #dc2eb9

Contrast

#dca72e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.19:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #946f19 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5212 as the text (7.33:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
9.61:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dca72e 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

#dca72e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dca72e
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #dca72e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dca72e-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md