Color

#dcad38

#dcad38
hex#dcad38
rgbrgb(220, 173, 56)
hslhsl(43, 70%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.771 0.139 85.8)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4539

Colors that go with #dcad38

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 #dcad38

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3866dc

#dc5b38 · #b8dc38

#38dcad · #ad38dc

Split-complementary

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#38b8dc · #5b38dc

#38dc5b · #3866dc · #dc38b8

Contrast

#dcad38 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.08:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #93711a as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5313 as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.26:1)
Aaon black
10.08:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dcad38 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

#dcad38 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dcad38
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 #dcad38 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dcad38-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md