Fireside
Open in tool →Cranberry, pine and brass on a charcoal night — the holiday palette without the clichés, because the surface is cold.
Color
#dca85b
#dca85b
hex
#dca85brgb
rgb(220, 168, 91)hsl
hsl(36, 65%, 61%)oklch
oklch(0.764 0.113 75.5)Closest name: Artisans Gold (#f2ab46)Relative luminance 0.4398
Colors that go with #dca85b
Charcoal, Light 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #dca85b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Light Sky Blue #87cefa
complementaryshippedLight Sky Blue sits directly opposite #dca85b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #dca85b in 6 real palettes, including Open House and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #dca85b in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #dca85b in 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Desert Road, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #dca85b in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #dca85b in 5 real palettes, including Golden Hour and Velvet, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #dca85b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #dca85b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.14:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.8:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #dca85b 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
#dca85b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #dca85b
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #dca85b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/dca85b-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md