Color

#dca91e

#dca91e
hex#dca91e
rgbrgb(220, 169, 30)
hslhsl(44, 76%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.761 0.15 85.6)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4369

Colors that go with #dca91e

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 #dca91e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1e51dc

#dc4a1e · #b0dc1e

#1edca9 · #a91edc

Split-complementary

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#1eb0dc · #4a1edc

#1edc4a · #1e51dc · #dc1eb0

Contrast

#dca91e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.16:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #906f14 as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #6c530f as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
9.74:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dca91e 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

#dca91e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dca91e
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 #dca91e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dca91e-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md