Color

#dcc409

#dcc409
hex#dcc409
rgbrgb(220, 196, 9)
hslhsl(53, 92%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.815 0.169 100.3)
Closest name: Aurora (#ebd147)Relative luminance 0.5472

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0922dc

#dc5a09 · #8bdc09

#09dcc4 · #c409dc

Split-complementary

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#098bdc · #5a09dc

#09dc5a · #0922dc · #dc098b

Contrast

#dcc409 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #847506 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #625704 as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4f4f4f (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #333333 (7.19:1)
Aaon black
11.94:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dcc409 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#dcc409 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dcc409
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #dcc409 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dcc409-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md