Color

#dcab38

#dcab38
hex#dcab38
rgbrgb(220, 171, 56)
hslhsl(42, 70%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.767 0.139 84.5)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4463

Colors that go with #dcab38

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#3869dc

#dc5838 · #bbdc38

#38dcab · #ab38dc

Split-complementary

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#38bbdc · #5838dc

#38dc58 · #3869dc · #dc38bb

Contrast

#dcab38 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.12:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #936f1a as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5213 as the text (7.36:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
9.93:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dcab38 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#dcab38 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dcab38
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 #dcab38 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dcab38-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md