Color

#dca809

#dca809
hex#dca809
rgbrgb(220, 168, 9)
hslhsl(45, 92%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.759 0.154 85.9)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4324

Colors that go with #dca809

Charcoal, Cornflower 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 #dca809

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#093edc

#dc3e09 · #a8dc09

#09dca8 · #a809dc

Split-complementary

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#09a8dc · #3e09dc

#09dc3e · #093edc · #dc09a8

Contrast

#dca809 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.18:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #937006 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5204 as the text (7.38:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
9.65:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dca809 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

#dca809 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dca809
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 #dca809 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dca809-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md